by Klaudia Polakowska | Sep 13, 2026 | Exhibitions & News
Some of the best things in an artist’s year arrive in the post. This one arrived as a small blank postcard — and went back out again as a painting of Bristol Cathedral. Earlier this year, Winsor & Newton launched Art Mail, a global community project with a...
by Klaudia Polakowska | Jul 11, 2026 | Pet Portraits
Some portraits are really two portraits at once. This one began with a photograph taken a few years ago at a festival — a little chihuahua tucked safely on their owner’s lap, with a wash of rainbow hair falling behind them like a curtain of colour. It had that...
by Klaudia Polakowska | Sep 20, 2024 | Events
Acrylic painting titled A Plea for Peace, a bust portrait of a woman, painted live at Art Battle Bristol 2024 Back in September 2024 I took part in Art Battle Bristol. It’s a live painting competition, and this one was held at We The Curious on Millennium...
by Klaudia Polakowska | Oct 9, 2019 | Watercolours
There’s a particular kind of heat you only find in an Italian summer — dry, golden, with the sound of water somewhere just out of sight. This painting came from exactly that. A few years ago I spent part of a summer in Tuscany, and one afternoon we found a...
