Patrycja Piętka (b. 1998), "The Blue Veil," 2022

Biography
She graduated from the Comprehensive School of Fine Arts in Katowice. In 2017 she began studying at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where she defended her diploma in the studio of Professor Miroslaw Sikorski in 2022. She is currently studying the second year of stage design, trying her first hand at realizing student short films. She has collaborated with numerous galleries in Krakow. In May 2021, her first individual exhibition "Depth" was held at the Art Agenda Nova gallery in Krakow. She participated in the exhibitions , "PUZZLE" in Zalaegerszeg (Hungary) as part of the Polish Culture Week, 2019; , "At a stretch" as part of the Cracow Art Week KRAKERS 2019: SKOK KRAKERS, 2019; ,,Drawing about Drawing-Black on White. 200 years of drawing at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts" organized by the National Museum in Krakow. In 2019, she received an honorable mention in the 2nd Winter Youth Salon at Zofia Weiss Gallery and an honorable mention in the CALL4ARTS2019 competition organized by the 4Style Foundation. The artist is interested in the theme of night, restlessness and melancholy feelings. She also draws her inspiration from film culture, following the psychology of the characters and the specifics of building tension, as well as the symbolism and understatement hidden in the layers of reality. In his canvases, he walks with quiet steps through night streets illuminated by single window lights, as well as travels by train through the evening forest wilderness. He follows the lives of animals after dark with night vision, trying to understand the mood of oppression and horror hanging in the misty air. The world of childhood fears hidden in the basement is intertwined with an emotional nature whose instincts are as untamed as our own.