Artist: JOANNA OWIDZKA
Country: POLAND
Title: Memories Kept in Linen
Size: 34 x 32 cm
Technique: Gobelin tapestry, the warp, linen
Year: 2014
Biography:

Joanna Owidzka has worked with weaving since 1980. After studies she worked as an assistant in her mother’s (Jolanta Owidzka) studio. Since 1982 she has regularly participated in every edition of Symposium Fiber Art Exhibition as well as exhibitions and open air painting sessions of the “Warsztat Twórczy – Kowary” International Symposium. She studied under the tuition of prof. Krystyna Szczepanowska and prof. Wojciech Sadley. She was awarded a pedagogical training certificate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, in 2003. She has held 11 solo exhibitions and participated in about 60 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Her works can be found in the collections of the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland. She works as a weaving teacher in the Róża Czacka Special Purpose School for Blind and Partially Blind Children in Laski near Warsaw. She finds her artistic and pedagogical activity satisfying, with the ability to develop.

Motto: Zapisane lnem wspomnienie z wakacji (Marmaris w Turcji)