Greece
Magdalena Wozniak-Melissourgaki “I am passionate about drawing portraits cause I believe that its the eyes that truly show who we are.”
Magdalena Wozniak-Melissourgaki, was born in
covers, art installation and animation. Her new works
Warsaw and now lives and works in Crete, Greece.
are a ‘Celebration of Woman’ - a theme thats most
She studied Fine Art at the Warsaw School of Art and then went on to get another degree in Multimedia Graphics. A self-motivated and passionate artist, she paints in a variety of mediums - oils, pastels, charcoals, and works on various creative projects. She loves doing portraits and pays special attention to get a true likeness of the eyes as she firmly believes that our “eyes are the windows to our souls.” Aside to painting, Magdalena also makes copies of artefacts and images from the Minoan Civilisation
at The Heraklion Archaeological Museum, located OPPOSITE PAGE: WOMAN MOODS I acrylic on canvas - 30 x 30 cm THIS PAGE - LEFT TO RIGHT: BLUE DREAM acrylic on canvas - 30 x 30 cm WOMAN MOODS 2 acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 cm WOMAN MOODS 3 acrylic on canvas - 30 x 30 cm
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in Heraklion on Crete, having the best collection in the world for Minoan art. Trained in graphics art, she does illustrations, book
close to her heart. It most challenging and at the same time, an expressive and liberating experience. Being a woman herself, she is able to experience a myriad of different feelings and emulate it in an artwork. Unlike her other portraiture works, these series have spontaneity and vibrance, at the same time an unleashing and unshackling propensity. Magdalena combines the classical with modernity, as she takes a timeless subject or topic and presents a modern rendition of it. She redefines and recreates a traditional idea, by imparting expression through brush strokes. Her paintings combine images from the Pop Culture and nature along with a generous dash of surrealism, where the resulting piece is
Magdalena fills her canvas with fields of colour and abstract forms of visceral expressionism.
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THIS PAGE - CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: SANTORINI charcoal on paper - 50 x 65 cm THE FIRST RAY OF THE SPRING SUN charcoal on paper - 50 x 65 cm RED FLOWER soft pastels on paperr - 30 x 40 cm
Magdalena combines the classical with modernity, as she takes a timeless subject or topic and presents a modern rendition of it.
born out of profound emotion on many universal themes. She fills her canvas with fields of colour and abstract forms of visceral expressionism. Her figures are in an ecstatic, dreamy and languorous mood, are depicted frequently in the middle of an action. Lost in their reverberating stupor and high on their celebration of self,
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OPPOSITE PAGE - CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: GRANDFATHER cahrcoal on paper - 70 x 50 cm PORTRAIT OF MARINA soft pastels on paper - 30 x 40 cm SOUL OF DANCE PASSION acrylic on paper - 30 x 40 cm LOVE FLOWER soft pastel on paper - 50 x 35 cm V acrylic on canvas - 30 x 30 cm WARM SMILE acrylic on canvas - 30 x 30 cm
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