TERRA VIRGINIS (2014) Painting by Emilia Gasienica-Setlak

Polish paintress & graphic artist. In the year 2011 she graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the Painting Studios of Professor Teresa Kotkowska-Rzepecka and Professor Leszek Misiak. She has also a university degree in graphic art in the Woodcut Studio of Professor Bogdan Miga. The most important issues of her artistic interests are dynamic colour, brief composition and their synthetic relations to the surroundings. Her works have been used as cover motives for books: „Evil Spirit” („Scriptum” Publishing House, 2005) by the Bulgarian absurdist fiction writer Svetoslav Minkov, „Aquatic names of the Vistula basin” (Polish Academy of Science, 2013) by Doctor Urszula Bijak and has appeared on the cover of the „Women In Art 278 Magazine”, 2014. Her paintings participated also in the filming of Spanish-American movie „Embers”, directed by Claire Carre, 2015. She exhibits in Poland, Spain, Italy, United States, Japan, Great Britain, United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria and Hungary. An author of twenty solo exhibitions and participant of over sixty group exhibitions and art fairs. Her works are located in Polish and Hungarian art museums and private collections in Europe and United States.

• Nationality: POLAND
• Date of birth : 1986
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Polish Artists