Natalia Sekhkovskaya, Kidnapping Africa, 2023

oil on canvas, 100,00 x 120,00 cm

The artist was born in 1971 in Gdynia. She earned a diploma from the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical University of Gdansk. Until 2019, she was professionally connected with the medical community, but her career so far did not give her a sense of fulfillment. Ever since she was a child, she was sure that she wanted to express herself through painting, her inspirations are the experience she has collected throughout her life, and her oil paints write the scripts themselves. As she states: "The time had come for self-realization. It was supposed to stay in me, for me and my home. However, many people became interested in my art, the paintings went out into the world, and I gained confidence that I had made the right decision."