My name is Thinloth and I’m a visual self-taught artist based in Poland using different traditional techniques to express myself.
The main artistic medium I work with since around 2010 is self-portrait photography, showing usually my daily life captured in artistic frames. Most of them dance around the archetype of free woman, called by some „the witch”. Woman dancing with fire, running with wolves, listening to the wind, smiling to the rain, understanding and feeling the cyclical nature of life and death. Woman immersing herself in the surrounding Nature, which is my main life’s inspiration, with extremely strong impact on every aspect of my life. Both everyday and artistic.
I try to show the elements of being a woman in a beautiful and dignified form. Regardless of whether it is the delicacy of girlishness, the wildness of the untamed power of freedom, or the sensual flame of femininity. Almost every woman has all these crumbs in her. Of course, they are differently balanced, sometimes some of them are hidden deep, buried or forgotten, but they still do exist.
In my paintings you can see droplets of my reality, that I’m not able to show through traditional photography. The way I see it. How I feel it. Which I experience both – being awake and in reality of nightdreams, when my mind travels through different dimensions, sometimes flying with the mesmerizing darkness of deep abysses. Everything that dance wildly inside me. Often there are plenty of contradictory elements, hardly to catch and name. Elusive, on the verge of visibility and perceptibility… Complicated. Sometimes keeping me from sleeping. And not because of fear, nor horror but because of the need to catch up with them. Sort out, understand, honour by giving them a chance to be noticed and appreciated in their own, sometimes, twisted way.
And what the viewer sees in my works is a completely different story.
Beside the visual part of creating I also write from time to time. Short chapters about life’s adventures of Shotail – wild, untamed shapeshifting creature, who is not afraid of her raw and powerful aspect, but terribly withdrawn from social life because of many unpleasant experiences. With surprise she discoveres her passionate sexuality in quite difficult love with calm and absolutely understanding Coberr. Luckily, she has big brother – Grulv. Always helpful, protective creature, with whom she often has long conversations about philosophical, spiritual, and life-related topics. They can be found on my Patreon garnished with photos.
Beside the strictly artictic part of my path, I’m also a founder of non-profit organization Your Heritage Foundation (Fundacja Twoje Dziedzictwo) that takes care mainly of monuments, but also of art and culture.
And normally, simply, day by day I’m… shy dryad from the deepest Forest, witch full of Nature magic, creature from old tales…
