My name is Nadia Kotkowska. I am a graduate of Printmaking and Easel Painting at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland.
I graduated from two faculties of the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts (now the University of Fine Arts): in 2008 in the field of Printmaking, and in 2010 in Easel Painting. Out of these two disciplines, Easel Painting has become the target territory for my creative work.
The subject I explore most is portrait.
The techniques I use are acrylic or oil on canvas, less oil on board or fibreboard. Work on every new piece of art is inaugurated with the almost rudimentary use of Van Dyke Brown underpaint. A characteristic feature that I try to keep in my works are the charcoal or sepia lines of the first sketch visible from underneath the layers of paint, giving the world presented in the paintings a specific space.
Since 2010, I have been working on my own artistic activity.
An artist is a combination of a dreamer and a craftsman. Lack of a good workshop excludes the possibility of projecting dreams and inner visions onto the recipient.
I am active in the field of old art forms. The art of new media created by other artists can provoke me to a dialogue, but the answer will be articulated through traditional means of expression.
I consider the first concept the best and most legible in the creation process. I stick to it.
I recognize the existence of inspiration – it can also be called intuition or inner voice. I start working with the framework of a composition, but I take into consideration the possibility of a complete metamorphosis of the resulting vision. I adhere to the principle that what is important will come to the front while painting.
I have no need to comment on current events in the world. I stay in an inner space where digestion of reality takes place slowly. In my work there may, but not necessarily, be references to autobiographical events. I am picking up the splinters of the modern world and transforming them on the canvas into a form corresponding to my experiences.
An artist is a combination of a dreamer and a craftsman. Lack of a good workshop excludes the possibility of projecting dreams and inner visions onto the recipient.
The recipient of my art is a human being who would like to see my work on the wall of his home. My vision of the world should be the window to another reality, and at the same time intertwine with the recipient’s vision and fantasy, thus creating a new area that is an element of her/hes intimate space.
