About Krystyna Szczepanowski
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Education
1978 - 1981
Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado
Awards
2017
Buchillon au Carré
2015
Second place at Buchillon au carré
Upcoming events
Event: Australian Watercolour Muster 2025
Dates: 17 Sep 2025 - 8 Nov 2025
A meeting of watercolorists in Australia with exhibitions, workshops and demos.
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Previous events
Event: Salon d'Aquarelle Céret
Dates: 25 Jun 2025 - 3 Jul 2025
Received a Honourable mention
Event: FabrianoinAcquarello 2025
Dates: 24 Apr 2025 - 26 Apr 2025
In Bologna
Event: Deux artistes exposent
Dates: 7 Apr 2025 - 10 May 2025
Two artists, two mediums: watercolour and acrylics.
Event: FabrianoinAcquarello 2024
Dates: 27 Apr 2024 - 29 Apr 2024
In 2024 the exhibition was in Bologna in April and in Texas, US, in October
Event: FabrianoinAcquarello 2023
Dates: 23 Apr 2023 - 25 Apr 2023
The annual Watercolour festival in Italy celebrating watercolour artists fro0m all over the world
Event: Country leader for FabrianoinAcquarello
Dates: 25 May 2020 - 31 May 2020
I have the honour of being the country leader for FabrianoinAcquarello 2020. This is a watercolour festival that happens every year in the town of Fabriano, Italy, famous for its paper manufacture since the middle ages.
Event: FABRIANOINACQUARELLO 2019
Dates: 25 Apr 2019 - 30 Apr 2019
The biggest watercolour festival in the world.
Watercolour artists from all over the world come to exhibit, paint, exchange ideas and techniques and to met.
Event: FABRIANOINACQUARELLO 2018
Dates: 3 May 2018 - 7 May 2018
Watercolour festival in Italy
Event: Buchillon au Carré
Dates: 29 Sep 2017 - 1 Oct 2017
I participated for the third time in this exhibition where every artist has to present four artworks measuring 30 x 30 cm.
And I'm very proud to announce that I got, for the second time running, the 2nd prize!
Event: Buchillon au Carré
Dates: 11 Sep 2015 - 13 Sep 2015
A collective exhibition with 72 artists participating. All artwork had to be in the square format measuring 30 x 30 cm.
Event: Exposition de Peintures
Dates: 15 Mar 2014 - 5 Apr 2014
Three artists living in the same village and all painting watercolours
Event: Exposition de Peintures
Dates: 8 Sep 2007 - 4 Oct 2007
Two artists showing their work: one in watercolours the other in silk painting
Event: Exposition de Peintures
Dates: 2 May 1998 - 17 May 1998
Three artists exhibiting their work in the beautiful venue of the Château, on the shore of the lake of Geneva.
Biography
I have always had a fascination for watercolours. With the idea that with water, pigments and paper one can replicate reality. I love the effects of granulation that watercolour pigments offer and the fact that the artist has a limited control over the flow and results obtained and has to learn to anticipate results and to be able to work with the "happy accidents" that always occur when painting with watercolour.
I'm a figurative painter attracted by a variety of subject matters. Every day there seems to be something in my surroundings that captures my imagination and makes me want to translate that feeling/sensation onto paper.
When working with still lives I try to find the beauty in ordinary objects. I enjoy isolating them from their usual settings and giving them the attention they do not usually receive.
Live models I paint in a looser, free style, swiftly capturing the essential elements to produce dramatic figures.
A couple of years ago I joined the local Urban Sketchers group and we try to meet, once a week, weather permitting, to sketch on location. This has been very beneficial to me, I see the progress not only in my work but also in the way I look and perceive the world around me.
I have the honour of being the Swiss country leader for FabrianoinAcquarello. This is a watercolour festival that happens every year, firstly in the town of Fabriano, now in Bologna, Italy, due to the big number of visitors who attend.
