Kat Handful - Golden Pieces of Her

“Its undeniable timeless beauty makes one wonder if the shell shapes the inside, or does the inside shape the shell?” - Kat Garstka

Kat Garstki's works go beyond the classic portrait. The artist decides to paint mainly women to mark their presence and, as she says, "tell herstories". For her, painting is contemplation, going beyond the real world and the existing paradigm. “Golden Pieces of Her” is an image of a woman with a clearly marked gaze, consisting of broken pieces. Warm colors stand out against a monochromatic gray background. The heroine is undoubtedly a strong, independent woman. Maybe an individualist, a warrior? Probably a part of it is hidden in each of us. The work, through its understatement, acquires a universal and timeless dimension.

Inkografia was created in a closed limited edition of 20 copies.

Kat Garstka (born 1977) - artist with dual Czech-Polish citizenship, painter and motion designer who also creates in digital space and VR (virtual reality). Her life and work are stretched between Warsaw and Ostrava, and this geographical duality and borderlines also become the theme and context of her art. The artist's style combines traditional painting with the latest animation techniques. Kat Garstka often uses the medieval technique of painting with glazes, but with the use of modern dyes. It draws from the tradition of classical portrait and landscape painting, but deepens it with a psychological hypothesis, as a result of which the portrait becomes in fact a manifestation of the dreams, dreams and fantasies of the painted figures. The protagonists of her paintings are mostly women subjected to painterly psychoanalysis, who together create a convincing herstory narrative. The abstract structure and surreal landscape merge with the figure, creating non-obvious clues for its interpretation. All this to reach the essence of personality.