Jagoda Szymanska-Kozlowska (born 1983), Lake 29, 2018

oil, canvas, 100 x 130 cm

Graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. In 2009 she defended her diploma with distinction in the studio of Prof. Piotr C. Kowalski. She took part, among others, in the Second Festival of Young Art Przeciąg in Szczecin (2009) and in the Fourth and Fifth All-Polish M. Michalik Competition for Young Painters in Czestochowa (2014, 2010). She won the First Prize of the Governor of Greater Poland in the National Contest "IX Salon Wielkopolski" in Czarnków and the Special Prize in the "Untouchable" competition organized by Gallerystore.pl portal as part of the Mediations Biennale 2012. She lives and works in Poznan. She created a series of paintings called "Glass," inspired by distorted images of faces behind patterned glass, and is currently working on a series called "Lakes," which is a continuation of her earlier painting explorations, but this time the subject of the paintings is landscape.