My name is Thinloth Korwin-Szymanowska 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 the archetype of free women, called by some „the witches”. Women dancing with fire, running with wolves, listening to the wind, smiling to the rain, understanding and feeling the cyclical nature of life and death. Women immersing themselves in the surrounding Nature, which is my main life’s inspiration, which has an 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.
What I pour into paper or canvas? Some say creatures from fantasy dimensions, others say nightmares. Personally, I paint the droplets of my reality. The way I see it. How I feel it. Which I experience both – being awake and in reality of nightdreams. Everything that dance wildly deep inside me. Often there are plenty of contradictory elements, hardly to catch, name, control. 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. Reworking, sorting out, soothing, calming them down by giving them a chance to be noticed and appreciated in their own twisted way.
And what the viewer sees in my works is a completely different story.
Beside that, I’m a founder of non-profit organization Your Heritage Foundation (Fundacja Twoje Dziedzictwo) that is the owner of the Temple of Art and Light: the Pearl – former abandoned evangelical church from XVIII century, which thanks to foundation crew’s long-term work has got new life as multifunctional cultural arena. And the Monastery of Souls – huge complex of ruined nunnery which origins reaches XIII century and has survived a lot of bad times but now, veeery slowly, wakes up to its new life.
And normally, simply, day by day I’m… shy dryad from the deepest Forest, witch full of Nature magic, creature from old tales…
