Jakub Turczyński
First and last name
Jakub Turczyński
Date of birth
nieznana, Polska
The artist about himself: ‘My name is Kuba. I am a painter. I have been painting since I was a child growing up in my home, usually sitting in the painting studio and watching my father paint, who, like me, watched my grandfather paint. This family tradition is very important to me and has a significant influence on the paintings I create. Although I have managed to find my own style, I often refer to the painting traditions of both my father and my grandfather. I grew up in Kazimierz Dolny, a picturesque town, where a landscape with a river, rugged terrain, magical light and unique architecture became a pretext for me to take my first steps in landscape painting. Although I later moved away from this, trying out different directions, from abstraction to representational painting and searching for my own style, light, landscape form, space and other motifs, sometimes seemingly invisibly woven into the painting, are a constant element in my work .After graduating from the High School of Fine Arts, where I obtained a diploma in the woodcarving and carving studio, I began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Graphic Arts. I obtained my diploma with honours in the illustration studio. Two appendices, on painting and drawing, were also an important part of the degree. Through studying graphic design, I learnt the skills of working with printmaking, but also learnt the principles of design when working on posters, lettering, typography and illustration; but the main content of my creative pursuits has always been painting. During my studies at the Academy, I was mainly involved in abstract painting, and I became familiar with the formal possibilities that could be achieved through different ways of applying paint, the use of various painting tools and the skill of using them. After graduating, I began to observe my imagination more and more closely, which became a pretext for new works and the beginning of a search for my own original creative path. Nowadays, I am mainly inspired by nature, which I approach almost with respect. For me, it is a meditative space in which my inner landscape is reflected, and I find space to contemplate the condition of the modern world, man and his spirituality, as well as universal, timeless truths, which I illustrate in a metaphorical way. For me, landscape is also a field of constant exploration of formal painting issues, the relationship between colour and light, matter and form.’
