90x70, oil on canvas, 2022
Katarzyna Wolodkiewicz
I was born, live and work in Wroclaw. I do painting, graphic design, illustration, I am passionate about fine arts in various forms. I am a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (Workshop Graphics, diploma in the studio of Prof. A. Basaj in 2002), but my passion began much earlier. Although its first manifestations could be perceived as vandalism, when in early childhood it gave me extraordinary pleasure to put black lines with a candle crayon on the white surface of a door, but I nurtured it within myself and it has not left me to this day.
After graduating from university, I did not stop indulging in creativity, and my livelihood was ensured by fulfilling private commissions, working with publishing houses, advertising agencies and art galleries. The same passion that made me create, still at the end of my studies gave birth to the need to infect others with myself, to share my knowledge and skills. The first opportunity to do so turned out to be an internship at the current High School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, where I studied myself at one time. From 2004-2006 I worked there as a teacher of design, sculpture, drawing and painting, at the time I also completed a Qualification Course conferring pedagogical rights at the Faculty of Art Education of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. I developed my own methods of working with students, and a curriculum was born in my mind, which I wanted to develop already on my own. In 2007 I established the Phenomenarium, my Drawing, Painting, Sculpture and Design Workshop. I have managed to create a place with a wonderful and inspiring atmosphere, and my students are succeeding in their exams to art universities at home and abroad, or simply indulging in their hobby.
I create out of an inner need, as well as on commission.
