Ryszarda Lucja Jagielska (b. 1956), Nocturne, 2021

acrylic, canvas, 100 x 100 cm, framed: 103.5 x 103.5 cm, signed p.d.: RŁJ and on the back

Ryszarda Łucja Jagielska is a painting architect, member of ZPAMiG, Plenary Circle OW SARP, WSP and Three Colors Group.
She paints, travels and writes poetry. She also does batik and ceramics. Someone has called her a Grottoholic, because in her work there is a theme of looking for light in caves and also in holiday bonfires, dawn at lakes and positive people - She looks for light and Light. From 2020-2021 she paints abstract paintings and paintings symbolizing the power of life.
She was born in Zakopane where she graduated from O. Balzer High School. Her first teacher of drawing and painting was the sculptor Czeslaw Yalowiecki, director of the JUTRZENKA House of Culture. She studied architectural drawing under architect Zenon Remi before taking the university exam. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. WA PW architectural drawing school conducted under the guidance of architects - professors: Henryk Dąbrowski, Jan Szymański, Adam Sufliński, and Ludomir Słupeczański and Franciszek Maśluszczak gave her the basics of the workshop. After defending her diploma, she worked in design offices, supervision and construction administration. Since graduating, she has been painting from her imagination and from nature using the gum arabic technique with ink and acrylic.
Since 2013, she has participated in numerous exhibitions and plein-air events at home and abroad. Her paintings are in private collections in Poland and France.