About the Artist Kasia Barbara Turajczyk

Who I am?

My name is Kasia Basia Turajczyk, I am an artist, a poet and a dreamer. I believe that we are here on this planet to be happy and free and our duty is to be happy and free, to love, and to be loved. And I also believe that creation and art’s spirit thrive on freedom and independence of the individual person. When placed in a cage it withers and dies.

I started painting and drawing as a child. At the age of thirteen I started taking art classes and training. Two years later I sold my first painting. I also wrote poems and short plays for my high school/college cabaret.

I studied art at private ateliers in Lodz in Poland and in Vienna in Austria.

I also have a university degree in Slavic languages and literature, which I obtained in Lodz and Amsterdam. I have also studied Philosophy at University in Lodz, Poland and management Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Besides painting and writing, I worked as a freelance advisor for non-profit organisations in the Netherlands and in other countries.
However, from 2003 I have spent most of my time painting and writing, and I regularly publish my poems (several radio interviews and own poetry readings).

I am a member of the BBK in the Netherlands. (Professional Union for Visual Artists.), and I am a member of a poetry society ‘Anex’ in Poland.
Most paintings I have sold via private networks and to order.

SOLO EXHIBITS

1972 XXIII Lyceum, Lodz, Poland
1980 Baden, Elza Group, Austria
1984 Galery Lelystad, the Netherlands
1995 / June Piet van Leeuwen, private exhibition, Venhuizen, Holland
2003 / October Den Haag, AWC gallery the Netherlands
2004 / May Exhibition Amsterdam, Keizergracht 586E (Attached to
International Woman Contact) the Netherlands
2004 - 2005 “Thuis in ‘t Oude’ Scheveningen (den Haag)
2006/ May Expo, Amstelveen, the Netherlands
2006 Exhibition Amsterdam, Keizergracht 586E (Attached to International Woman Contact), the Netherlands.

My blogs:

http://surrealist-fantasy-art.blogspot.com

My website with paintings:

http://kasiaturajczyk.com