Art collages - The CreativeMindClass Blog

On Sunday afternoon I accidentally caught Olga sharing Instagram posts about my neighborhood from childhood. In the middle of Warsaw's urban jungle is a lesser-known, sacred green area. I would visit it in summer time to gaze at beautiful old pine trees and breathe in the fresh air of fresh air inside my urban lung. In her account, Olga visited this area for the first time but she was also captivated by the most ancient backyards in Warsaw. In the near future, I am sure she'll create an inspired Boernerowo painting.

We talked to Olga about her process for designing her minimalist collages as well as artworks of human-shaped landscapes.

"My Name is Olga Szczechowska, and I'm living in Warsaw. Since the age of a child, I've always been painting and drawing a lot. I was a student at an art high school and studied painting and Cultural Studies at the University of Nicolaus Copernicus in Torun.

I'm an illustrator, painter as well as a graphic designer. In my practice, I focus on the relationship between humankind and nature by carefully observing the way we create the environment in our backyards. Through observing trimmed hedges, decorative plants, and carefully designed gardens for homes I'm capturing the strange beauty of the surroundings around us."

"For some time, I've made minimalist collages. These collages were in the form of landscapes and still life, or are created as a result of experiments with shapes, textures, and colours.

My work is diverse because painting and collages differ in many ways, however they have one thing that is common to both: they calm. I've heard this phrase repeatedly from my viewers, and I think that it best describes the nature of my work. When I'm bored of painting, I make collages, and vice versa. One style is a temporary escape from the different.

I think observation is key. I carefully observe everything I see, including nature, architecture, and objects. All this is reflected in my art. Through my work, you do not see a person, but you get the feeling of humans in the hedges that are trimmed or in a mug left at the end of the dining table."

Check out Olga's Instagram for calming work in progress.

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