Kamila Stefania Tkaczyk
Kamila Stefania Tkaczyk was born in Warsaw in 1975. She graduated as a television and film production manager from Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School (University of Silesia) and earned an MBA in International Marketing from the Higher School of Trade and International Finance in Warsaw. She has built a successful career as a graphic designer and art director, notably creating the image of HBO in Poland for the past 20 years. Kamila’s greatest passion is painting. Her work is well-suited for decorative wall art, whether it is abstract works on canvas or art applied directly to the wall in an architecturally designed interior. Kamila is also interested in fashion, both as a fashion illustrator and designer of bags and accessories.
Free lines, clean stains and shape analysis are characteristic elements of her work. Elements such as the figure, the object, the view next to pure abstraction and the colour composition are precisely combined to convey the artist’s intent. She favours traditional techniques, and her tools include a pencil, a mapping pen, an oil pastel, polychrome crayons, acrylic and oil. She is renowned for her female portraits painted from her experience. Kamila believes it is important to portray the inner male of her subjects and identifies with many of them in terms of emotional state, sensitivity and situations.
“When I paint, I’m faithful to myself, by trusting my intuition and realising the need to create. I do not borrow; I give myself to creativity. To me, the composition is the most sublime means of expressing feelings and interactions of colours and shapes with respect to one another. My attention is devoted to the analysis of the colours and their mathematical role. Painting is like a scientific study, and nothing is done by accident at my easel. I like clean colours and feelings. First, I play intuitively, drawing a sketch and letting my pencil run through the clean canvas. This is when I realise my dream. Then I carefully add the final touches of colours. I express my opinions through my work. I do not want everyone to understand me. Only a difficult and individual path produces excellent results. I want to stop time; I celebrate moments.”
