Mirella STERN (b. 1971), The Last Samurai, 2023

acrylic, canvas, 100 x 100 cm, signed p.d.: M. Stern

Graduated from the Pedagogical Academy in Cracow, Faculty: art, (diploma in painting - studio of Dr. Aleksander Pieńek). In 2000-10 she participated in many group exhibitions in the country. At present, she continues her individual creative work devoting herself to painting and designing scenography for theatrical performances. The main theme of the artist's works is man. The painter likes to use the term "man seen from within". Most often she depicts people under the forms of wooden puppets, marionettes, stone statues, letting them themselves tell their own short story momentarily stopped in the painting.