Hanna Werkowicz - Tasza

Title: “Tasza” (2025)
Technique: Japanese ink, Japanese mineral pigments, metallic flakes on cotton canvas
Framing: The work is professionally framed in a gold wooden American box frame. The piece is ready to hang on the wall. It is signed on the back (sticker with signature).

Hello! If you are looking for a unique and unconventional painting created with noble technique and you feel drawn to the mysterious and dignified world of nature, you are in the right place. I am an experienced artist and painter from Poland. I am strongly inspired by Japanese aesthetics and natural history illustrations from bygone eras. My paintings fit beautifully not only into private interiors but also into spaces such as boutique hotels, cafes, offices, beauty clinics, or studios. For every work I attach a certificate of authenticity.

My direct inspiration is the Japanese nihonga technique. The paintings are created on cotton canvas or paper. The paints are ground by hand from Japanese mineral pigments suihi and homemade glue. For application I use Asian-style brushes commonly associated with calligraphy. The white pigment comes from gofun – a Japanese oyster shell powder. I also paint with sumi ink based on water. The gilded fragments on my paintings are shad gleaming metal – metal flakes that imitate gold. These metallic elements beautifully reflect light, even on cloudy days, and make the painting look slightly different from every angle.

On a gold background, like a desert, lies a flat decorative coral with lace-like arms, forming an ornamental frame for the main subject of the composition. Here is an amazing, stout Tasza fish with olive-green, speckled skin, turquoise fins, and characteristic spines along its back, rendered with naturalistic precision. The contrast between realistic, three-dimensional rendering of the fish and the flat, nearly heraldic silhouette of the coral creates a tension between natural illustration and decorative composition in the spirit of Rinpa-style Japanese painting.

Hanna Werkowicz (born 1986, Warsaw) is a graduate of the Warsaw Theatrical Academy and a makeup school. She has also worked as an illustrator, a prop designer for advertising and film, and created about 500 artistic objects for clients worldwide. The artist’s main inspirations are Japanese aesthetics and antique natural history illustrations, with animals and plants at the center of her artistic interests. In her work, in addition to the external form, she aims to capture the spirit of the plant or animal, paying homage to the perfect beauty of nature. Her paintings achieve a balance between decorative form and the raw pigment, giving them a calm, contemplative character.

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