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Press Release – Devon Open Studios 2010

Kasia — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:15:02 +0000

Artist in Exeter/Dunchideock to take part in Devon Open Studios

Kasia Turajczyk
Lyalls Cottage, Dunchideock, Exeter, EX6 7YD

http://gallery.kasiaturajczyk.com

Phone: 01392 833904

Established Dunchideock artist, Kasia Turajczyk will be inviting guests into her studio/local gallery to view her new work this year in the forthcoming county-wide arts event, Devon Open Studios.

It is the largest showcase for artists in the county and Kasia Turajczyk will be joining over 260 artists opening their doors for 16 days from 4th –19th of September. Kasia will be taking part for the first time and is looking forward to her contribution to the event held at her studio in the garden of Lyalls Cottage and her gallery within the cottage.

Kasia began painting as a child, and for her becoming a successful artist is the realization of a life-long passion. She has lived in several countries with different political systems; diverse cultures, different languages, peoples, and landscapes and that fact has had a big influence on her development and growth as an artist and as a person.

Kasia works in diverse fields of art: paintings, installations, collages, fantasy art and new media. When you visit her studio you will be able to see examples of such work, together with recent abstract and modern figurative collages with a hint of surrealism, inspired by the nature of Devon. Nature is also a source of raw materials for Kasia's art, which enables her to achieve some very interesting structural effects.

She will also be showing some new installations entitled Personalities, created from old CD’s, acrylics and recycled materials (weather permitting in the open air of the garden). Kasia will also be inviting her visitors to take part in the process of producing an installation. She will be providing such an environment during the Open Studio weeks to make it possible for visitors to work together with her, and to have the opportunity to talk to her directly about the creative process.

Kasia Turajczyk is looking forward to the show and hopes that Devon Open Studios will help raise her profile. In 2009 over 30,000 visits were recorded, an almost two fold increase from the year before. Free to the public, the event provides a unique chance to see a wide variety of new work.

Devon Open Studios produces a comprehensive guide to help visitors plan their own art trail and combine browsing art with enjoyment of the county’s fantastic scenery. Free copies of the guide are now available at tourist information centres, libraries, galleries, and hotels. The most prominent place in Dunchideock where the guide will be available is the well known Lord Haldon Hotel (10 minutes walk from Kasia Turajczyk’s studio -http://www.lordhaldonhotel.co.uk).

The Blueberrry Fantasy - acrylics on canvas

"CDeens" from the Series Personalities

Kasia — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:35:11 +0000

From the Personalities series are the two new installations “Who is Who?” and “Broken Curriculum”.

It is really fun to use old CDs, seeds, some recycled materials and combine them with acrylics. The limited space on the old CD’s and the same form all the time forces me to be very creative with the colours and to think in a different way than usual when I am using canvas.

I can make 100 absolutely different CDeens (a new word for painted CD’s) and then from the 100 small pieces of CDeens I can create lots of new art works. Vertical, horizontal, round, square – the bases could be very diverse.

Who is who? 48 cm x 12 cm on wooden panel

What do you think about this idea of using old CD’s to create an artwork?

From the Series Personalities – The Family version II

Kasia — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:39:19 +0000

A new version of the collage "The Family". This work is a part of a big installation entitled Personalities. It is created from CD's, acrylics and recycled material. A weird stuff. It is a great pleasure to create/ paint/ make this project real and alive.

High culture, mice and art – From the Series Personalities.

Kasia — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:24:22 +0000

My perception about the subject “mice and high culture” changed dramatically after the most recent event in my studio. I didn’t expect that a rodent would appreciate art! You see…..I was wrong. They do.
One of the agreements from the Four Agreements by Jose Ruiz says ‘do not make assumptions”. How true. I did not expect that mice would love art; my paintings particularly. Perhaps I shouldn’t have used so many tasty seeds? This painting (see the image) has been eaten by mice (I assume so, I hope that we have only mice here and no rats!). I assume that they were mice, I don’t expect bats or spiders would eat my painting, maybe I am wrong?
This is my new painting from the series 'The Personalities'. The title is ‘The Family’. Maybe I will bring some changes into it the next few days……I am not sure of it is ready or not.

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New Project – The Personalities

Kasia — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:58:25 +0000

This is my new project: The Personalities – using old CD's, acrylics, seeds and other weird stuff. At the moment it is just a concept, I have lots of ideas and some of them will be soon more then only ideas .:-)) I have painted more then 100 CD's till now. Some of them incredible nice, unusual, dark, funny, ugly, beautiful, colourful, sunny, green, blue, white, yellow, red, orange, angry, happy, cheerful, thoughtful – our characters, our personalities.

I am happy to work with old CD's, I think we should try to use more and more rubbish to help our planet. A kind of recycling I guess.

The Personalities - installation, project, concept