Hanna Werkowicz - Tasza

Title: “Tasza” (2025)
Technique: Japanese ink, Japanese mineral pigments, gold leaf on cotton canvas
Frame: The work is professionally framed in a gold wooden American box frame. The piece is ready to hang on the wall. 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’re 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 ancient eras. My paintings fit well not only private interiors, but also spaces such as boutique hotels, cafes, offices, beauty clinics or studios. I attach a certificate of authenticity to each work.

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

On a golden background, like sand, 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 the back, rendered with naturalistic precision. The contrast between the realistic, three-dimensional rendering of the fish and the flat, almost heraldic silhouette of the coral gives the work tension between natural illustration and decorative composition in the spirit of Japanese painting Rinpa.

Hanna Werkowicz (born 1986, Warsaw) is a graduate of the Theatre Academy in Warsaw and the makeup school. She has also worked as an illustrator, a prop maker for advertising and film, and created about 500 artistic objects for clients around the world. Her main inspirations are Japanese aesthetics and old natural history illustrations, with animals and plants at the center of her artistic interests. In her works, beyond the external form, the artist 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 austerity of natural pigment, giving them a calm, contemplative character.

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