Paulina Tetrycz, née Siwko (artistic pseudonym – Polina Sevkova) is the artist behind Barwy Kaczawskie, a unique gallery in Złotoryja, where tourists discover the magical world of colours using geological wealth. Currently, the gallery uses light projections, which allow visitors to learn about the extraction of geological material for pigment, as well as showing videos of the creation of pigments and their use for the preparation of watercolour paint. Barwy Kaczawskie is a new proposition for tourists travelling around Lower Silesia and wanting to explore its great natural wealth, and it was immediately met with a warm welcome, as evidenced by the certificate of the Polish Tourist Organisation.

No one can tell you about artistic and educational activities better than the author, so we give the floor to Mrs. Paulina.

"She was born in 1984 in Złotoryja. I am an independent interdisciplinary creator. I practice sculpture, graphics, painting, create stone reliefs, and collect and grind native rocks, minerals, soils and stones into pigment powder. I studied artistic education in the field of fine arts at the State Higher Vocational School in Głogów. In 2007 I obtained a diploma in artistic graphics - linocut. Since 2017, I have been running an art studio called Aromatic Studio and creating my own gallery of natural pigments in Złotoryja in Lower Silesia. I am a laureate of several art competitions, as well as a participant in various collective exhibitions and artistic events. In 2023, I became a scholarship holder of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship for people involved in artistic creation and the promotion of culture. I conduct creative workshops with children and young people. In my works uses materials such as powdered alabaster, marble, anhydrite, earth pigments and natural materials (linen, wood).

Since 2016, I have been designing and making small stone bas-reliefs for fragrances (fragrance stoneware). In 2021, I won the Jelonek Karkonoski from the Karkonosze Regional Development Agency for the best regional product - a carved mandala made of natural pigments. In 2022, I was awarded the Jelonek again 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 creating pigments. I publish my works with pigments under the pseudonym Polina Svkova. In 2021, my work with pigments was noticed by the Japanese painter, professor Kouan Hashimoto from the Joshibi University of Art & Design school, and in November 2022, my works were shown at the exhibition of the Natural Pigment Festival in Japan. In January 2023, my work with pigments was appreciated by Professor Kouan Hashimoto by including them in classes at the Joshibi University of Art and Design in Japan and the Faculty of Education, Freidrich-Alexander University in Germany. The pigments I create have traveled to Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, the USA, Sweden, the Netherlands and Japan, where they are used by: - ​​painters, - art restorers, - conservators and icon painters.

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