Hi!

My name is Natalia and I’m a Polish illustrator currently based in the UK.

I studied History of Art at the University of Warsaw and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Once I obtained my MA degree, I studied briefly Illustration at Cardiff School of Art and Design.

I'm proud to say that my illustrations were selected for the 55th Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition 2021.

I was also longlisted for the Folio Book Illustration Award 2023.

The first picture book I illustrated, Ten Pan (written by Artur Gębka), was published in Poland by Widnokrąg in September 2023.

It received a distinction in the Polish Section of the IBBY’s Book of the Year Award for an illustrated book in 2023.

Illustrations from Ten Pan were also selected for the Babalunga and Kamolongos international exhibition of editorial illustration in Valencia, Spain (Baba Kamo festival 2023).

My illustrations are full of wobbly lines, patterns and textures – I tend to work in mixed media, with a range of analog tools that help me achieve the feeling of spontaneity and freedom that I always look for in all genres of illustration.

Exhibitions:

2023-2024 <<Babalunga i Kamolongos>> (BABA KAMO - illustrated book festival and fair), Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània - CCCC de València, Spain, group exhibition

2021-2022 Art Museum and Library, Ota, Japan, group exhibition

2021 Hamamatsu City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan, group exhibition

2021 Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan, group exhibition

2021 Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, group exhibition

2021 Bologna Children's Book Fair 2021 Illustrators Exhibition, online group exhibition

2020 Curated for Covid, online group exhibition (curated by Rachael Neale and Beth Rodway)

2020 About This Studio: Film, online group exhibition (curated by Laina Deene and Freya Croissant)