Aleksandra Bartkowiak-Mil, Wind, 2022

Oil, canvas, 50 x 60 cm

She was born in 1989 in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She attended the Leon Wyczółkowski School of Fine Arts (POSSP) in Bydgoszcz. She studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree with honors in 2014. She has participated in many exhibitions and plein-air painting workshops. She is a scholarship holder of the City of Toruń in the field of culture. Most often she paints oil and acrylic paintings from the borderland of landscape and abstraction. In her painting, the main inspiration is nature as a whole, where fragmentary presentation of the image of the world, mimesis is not the main goal. By interpreting the reality she found, she wanted to create a new-world of emotions inspired by nature, which in this case is a metaphor for her own intimate world. For the artist, painting is the closest way of expression, through it she gets to know herself, finds peace and joy, but sometimes it also allows her to express the deepest emotions that cannot be described in words. She also works in illustration and ceramics. She currently lives and creates in Gdynia.