Anna Bocek studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Painting & Set Design, and is a painter. She has exhibited her works in dozens of solo and group exhibitions across various countries such as Poland, USA, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Spain, France, UK, Italy, Austria, Greece, Czech Republic, and Taiwan.
“In principle, anything can become a theme and inspire me to create something new: a film, a book, situations from everyday life, observed interpersonal interactions, art and travel to new places as well as new people,” says Anna Bocek
Anna draws inspiration from everything around her, but her strongest driving force in artistic activities has been the theatre. Her creative journey started with working in the theatre, but her fascination lied in the human being that existed within it, which is evident in her entire body of work. She expresses her fascination through intense colours, almost realistic figurativeness with abstraction, dynamic representation of characters, and treating paintings as a sort of study of human moods. Anna often creates larger formats and even expands them by adding additional panels while experimenting with combining strong, decisive colours to present such strong, diverse emotions.
For Anna, the most significant and strongest aspect of her creativity is emotions. She creates intuitively, and in order to express them, she subconsciously chooses appropriate expressions, symbolism, and dynamic colors. Anna believes that the symbolism and message in her paintings are quite obvious – at first glance, there is physical beauty and gentleness, but on the other hand, there is an inner power, strength, and independence.
“The reality that I am showing is not a faithful reconstruction of what surrounds me. It’s a world built anew through the prism of my own feelings and experiences, a record of my observations of human nature,” says Anna
