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    • Skin Poetry
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    • Gallery I
    • Gallery II
    • Distant Skies
    • Modern Lovers
  • Selected nudes
    • 2019-present
    • 2008-2018
  • Selected self portraits
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    • Print Of The Month
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Childhood Lost is an autobiographical project, self portrait in a different body, exploring the nature of portraiture and memory. As a mother I have found myself analysing notions and representations of childhood. I see my daughter’s experiences of growing up in urban England conflicting with my own experiences of growing up in rural Poland. My own childhood was not a source of many happy memories, perhaps the most resonant of which are the times I escaped to a world of fantasy played out in the forests surrounding my home village. I have produced  a series of portraits that evoke characters that populate this world we know as childhood. A court of characters from myth and dreams. The images are aesthetically inspired by portraiture from the Golden Age of Dutch painting. By drawing on paintings as inspiration I am hoping to give a timeless feel to the images. Key to the project is the painstaking styling and costume making, which I am using to evoke these different persona played out by my daughter Nell.

AWARDS
WINNER  -PEACHES &CREAM III, Millennium Images 2013.London,UK.
GOLD MEDAL from THE ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 2011.London, UK.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Artcult&Gera Museum, Novi Sad, Serbia.2014
National Media Museum, Bradford,UK.2011

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