Works
Fleur, 2024
This portrait depicts Fleur Jaeggy (b. 1940), a writer of Swiss origin. The artist first encountered her through the book Impossible Lives. She felt a profound connection and a shared perception of the world with the writer: a sense of fantasy, digressiveness, and a...
Hilda, 2023
The portrait depicts the medieval saint, Benedictine abbess, and mystic Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) – a prophetess and "seer." She was an unconventional saint, and as a mystic, she was far from submissive. She saw the connection between humanity and the entire...
Władzia, 2024
Title: Władzia Date: 2024 Description: This portrait depicts the artist's aunt, Władysława. During the realization of her doctoral dissertation, titled Traces of the Goddess in the Web of Multiversum, a "meeting" and reconciliation occurred with the artist's...
Pina, 2024
Title: Pina Date: 2024 Description: The portrait depicts Pina Bausch (1940–2009). The painting was inspired by Walter Vogel’s photograph of a young Pina in a rehearsal room, practicing at the barre, and is part of the artist's PhD thesis. Before painting the...
Monika, 2024
Title: Monika Date: 2024 Description: The painting is a self-portrait of the artist, which enabled her to enter the same dimension as the other figures depicted in the “Summer” and “Winter” cycles—women artists, mystics, and writers—and, above all, her mother,...
Therese, 2023
Title: Therese Date: 2023 Description: The portrait depicts St. Thérèse of Lisieux. The painting is part of the artist’s doctoral dissertation, titled Traces of the Goddess in the Web of Multiversum, and belongs to the “Summer” cycle. It was painted based on a...
Marija and Daughter, 2024
Title: Marija and Daughter Date: 2024Description: This is one of the final paintings in the "Summer" series, which is a part of the artist's doctoral dissertation titled "Traces of the Goddess in the Web of Multiversum." The body of work was inspired by the...
Curiosity in the Crown of Stars, 2025
Title: Curiosity in the Crown of Stars Date: 2025 Description: The portrait depicts the English astronomer and star researcher Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. In her pioneering doctoral thesis, defended in 1925 at Harvard College Observatory, she put forward the...
Cecilia (Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin), 2025
Title: Cecilia (Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin) Date: 2025 Description: The portrait depicts the English astronomer and star researcher Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. In her pioneering doctoral thesis, defended in 1925 at Harvard College Observatory, she put forward the...
Master of Manifestation, 2024
Title: Master of Manifestation Date: 2024 Description: This is a portrait of Łukasz Dziedzic, my dear friend and painter. The painting was created for the group exhibition Rhizome, presenting the works of the Kłącze collective, a group of artists who share their...
Marta Teacher of Subtlety, 2024
Title: Marta Teacher of Subtlety Date: 2024 Description: The painting was created for the group exhibition Rhizome, presenting the works of the Kłącze collective, a group of artists who share their studios at the Institute of Industrial Chemistry in Warsaw. This show...
Dwa słońca (Two Suns), 2024
Title: Dwa słońca (Two Suns) Date: 2024 Description: This is a portrait of Hanna Orzechowska. She is one of the heroines of my doctoral thesis on the reconstruction of my female lineage. The painting depicts the artist lying on her side. In her abdomen is a black sun...
Słońce patrzy na mnie (The Sun is Looking at Me), 2024
Title: Słońce patrzy na mnie (The Sun is Looking at Me) Date: 2024 Description: The painting is a portrait of Hanna Orzechowska. She is one of the heroines of my Ph.D. thesis, where I reconstruct my feminine lineage. It depicts the artist's face shown in profile...
Wśród gwiazd (Among the Stars), 2024
Title: Wśród gwiazd (Among the Stars) Date: 2024 Description: Together with the portrait Sowa-mama (Owl-Mother), it forms a bracket, marking the beginning and end of my Ph.D. thesis. Both portraits show the evolution of our relationship. My main intention for this...
Wielki błękit (The Big Blue), 2024
Title: Wielki błękit (The Big Blue) Date: 2024 Description: In the center of the composition are the words "kocham Cię" (I love you). Since I connected with my mother, and through her even more strongly with the heroines and heroes of my Ph.D. thesis, I increasingly...
Cornflower
Title: Cornflower Date: 2023 Description: It is one of my favorite wildflowers. Its blue is mesmerizing. I love to watch it growing on the field of wheat. Together with poppies and chamomile, it creates a perfect color combination. Cornflower transforms into a...
Goddess Frog
Title: Goddess Frog Date: 2022 Description: The image of the frog goddess is inspired by a black stone figurine from Achilleion (Greece). The frog, alongside the fish, is an allegory of the life-giving aspect of the goddess named by Marija Gimbutas the Life Giver. The...
Poppy
Title: Poppy Date: 2023 Description: A single poppy flower fills the whole frame. Concentric oval lines appear on its petals, resembling the structure of a spiderweb. In the upper part of the composition, they develop into zigzags, and the lines form triangular...
Fish Head, (yellow)
Title: Fish Head, (yellow) Date: 2021 Description: Painting forms a diptych with the painting Fish Head (Red). The dominant chrome yellow is a symbol of the sun and evokes the masculine aspect, which creates balance with the feminine aspect. Both of them are equally...
Fish Head, (red)
Title: Fish Head, (red) Date: 2021 Description: My inspiration for this painting was a figurine of a fish goddess from Lepenski Vir. When I was painting this picture, I was thinking about Matisse. So the painting connects with his way of painting. The composition is...
Rawa, 2024
Title: Rawa Date: 2024 Description: This is an allegory of the Rawa River flowing through Katowice, which was destroyed by local industry. The painting was presented at the solo exhibition What Can I Do For You? at Oblatów 4, dedicated to the Rawa River. The painting...
Healer (Cave)
Title: Healer, (Nick Cave) Date: 2021 Description: The portrait depicts a young Nick Cave and is part of my doctoral dissertation. He is shown in profile. He is looking towards the light. It is a symbol of love that conquers death. I see him as a healer because he...
She-Spider, 2021
Title: She-Spider Date: 2021 Description: The she-spider is an animal archetype closely linked to the narrative of the female line and inheritance through the female line (matrilineality). She-spider is an ancient great-grandmother who, according to the beliefs of the...
Zuz’s Heart, 2024
Title: Serce Zuz (Zuz's Heart) Date: 2024 Description: The painting depicts the image of Zuza Ostrowska's heart. She has been my friend since our studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in Professor Jarosław Modzelewski's Painting Studio. For almost a quarter of...
Kasia, 2023
Title: Kasia Date: 2023 Description: It depicts my friend, an architect who works with crystals. I call her "crystal Kasia." She has a strong connection with nature, and in particular with minerals in the extrasensory dimension. Kasia describes minerals as "perfect...
Owl-Mother, 2021
Title: Owl-Mother Date: 2021 Description: The painting is part of my Ph.D. thesis, and it is its literal and symbolic beginning. In 2025, thirty years will have passed since the death of my mother, Krystyna, who died when I was nineteen years old. The painting...
Louise, 2022
Title: Louise Date: 2022 Description: This is a portrait of Louise Bourgeois. I was bearing in mind the sculpture Maman (1999) when I painted it. She is one of the most important artists to me and a heroine of my Ph.D. thesis. In 2000, I saw her installation I Do, I...
Death, 2021
Title: Death Date: 2021 Description: The portrait is inspired by the photograph Self-Portrait with a Skull (1997). It is provocative because Sarah Lucas photographed herself with a skull between her legs. In Neolithic matristic cultures, death turns smoothly into...