Paulina Tetrycz, de domo-Siwko (artistic pseudonym – PolinaSevkova) is the artist behind Kaczawski Colors, a unique gallery in Zlotorya, where, using geological riches, tourists discover a magical world of colors. Currently, the gallery uses light projections to allow visitors to learn about the extraction of geological material into pigment as well as showing video images of the creation of pigments and using it to prepare watercolor paint. Colors of Kaczawskie is a new proposal for tourists traveling in Lower Silesia and wishing to explore its great natural riches, and was immediately warmly received, as evidenced by a certificate from the Polish Tourist Organization

No one will tell the story of artistic and educational activities better than the author, so we give the floor to Ms. Paulina.

“She was born in 1984, in Zlotorya. I am an independent interdisciplinary artist. I practice sculpture, printmaking, painting, create stone reliefs and collect and grind native rocks, minerals, soils and stones into pigment powder. I studied art education in visual arts at the State Higher Vocational School in Glogow. In 2007, I received a diploma in artistic printmaking – linocut. Since 2017, I have been running an art studio called Aromatyczna Pracownia and creating an author’s gallery of natural pigments in Zlotorya, Lower Silesia. I am the winner of several art competitions, as well as a participant in various group exhibitions and art events. In 2023, I was awarded a scholarship from the Lower Silesia province for people involved in artistic creation and dissemination of culture. I conduct creative workshops with children and young people. In my works I use materials such as powdered alabaster, marble, anhydrite, earth pigments and natural materials (linen, wood).

Since 2016, I have been designing and making small stone reliefs for fragrances (scented stoneware). In 2021, I won a Karkonosze Jelonek from the Karkonosze Regional Development Agency for the best regional product – a carved mandala made from natural pigments. In 2022, I was again awarded the Jelonek for a stoneware for fragrances – leaves (Polish herbs) – also as the most interesting regional product. I am a member of the international associations Pigments Revealed and Wild Pigment Project, whose mission is to popularize the art of pigment making. She publishes her work with pigments under the pseudonym Polina Svkova. In 2021, my work with pigments was noticed by Japanese painter Professor Kouan Hashimoto of the Joshibi University School of Art & Design and in November 2022, my work was shown at an exhibition of the ongoing Natural Pigments Festival in Japan. In January 2023, my work with pigments was recognized by Professor Kouan Hashimoto by including them in classes at Joshibi University of Art and Design in Japan and Faculty of Education Freidrich-Alexander University in Germany. The pigments I create have traveled to Australia, Germany, the UK, Canada, the US, Sweden, the Netherlands and Japan, where they are used by: painters, art restorers, art restorers or iconographers.

Kaczawskie Colors – Natural Pigments Gallery

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