Anna Maria MICHALSKA - The emotion of colours

Anna Maria Michalska is an emerging English artist that has spent the recent years of her personal and artistic life across England, Poland, Spain, Italy and Switzerland, where she currently lives (Neuchatel). Living and working within a creative ambience, has enabled her to explore several avenues both didactically and personally within her art.

Born in Leicester, UK, in 1975, Michalska studied Decorative Arts at the Nottingham Trent University, with a specialism in print design. Later becoming an art teacher.

Anna’s inspiration comes from artists like Pollock as well as from the surrealism of Dali, Chagall, Frida Kahlo and the recent encounter with one of the master's of the Italian surrealism, Lanfranco.
Her current work follows an exploration of colours and movement. Images are profound yet tactile, strong yet sublime. Layers of colour, evolving from the canvas create a true deepness and an interest with varying viewpoints, allowing the viewer feel absorbed within.

“Anna Maria Michalska has the unique ability to generate emotions”
La Gazzetta di Mantova, June 2008

“Anna’s powerful expressionism gives shape to extraordinary colour patterns in the frame of spiritual geometries merging texts and materials, esoterical and experimental digressions of colours conveying the nostalgic memory of lost ancient time..
This is the magic of Anna.”
Marilena Buganza, July 2008

“Painting is both an unconscious and conscious process. I consciously choose the materials, tools and colour and then something allows them to flow from my mind to my arm, unconsciously transforming mood to colour”
Anna Maria Michalska, July 2008

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
May 2009 - Galleria Cortina, Milano, Italy
March 2009 - ArteArt, Hauterive (NE), Switzerland
October 2008- Palazzo Ducale, Revere (MN), Italy
June 2008 - Palazzo Pigozzi, Pieve di Coriano (MN), Italy

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
August 2007- Atelier Gallery, Porta Venezia, Milan, Italy.
July 2007 - Palazzo Pigozzi,Pieve di Coriano, Mantova, Italy.
April 2007 - 2x2 Exhibition, Charnwood Museum, Loughborough, UK.
December 2006 - Artspace at Christmas - City Gallery, Leicester, UK.
September 2006 - Art at Oakham Castle, Oakham, Rutland, UK. (Contemporary Art Award Winner, NADFAS)
June 2006- 'On Reflection', (Artspace) The Generator Gallery, Loughborough, UK.
January 2006 - Circolo Magnolia, Milan, Italy.
September 2005 - Gallery 18, Loughborough, UK.
September 2005 - Arte Para Todos, Valencia, Spain.
July 2004 - Cool Carmen, Valencia, Spain.
December 2003 - Moments Art, Valencia, Spain.
June 2000 - Masonic Hall, Nottingham, UK.
June 1998 - The New Designers Exhibition, London, Uk.