Interview
MAGDALENA WOZNIAKMELISSOURGAKI mandalenaw.wixsite.com
Magdalena Wozniak-Melissourgaki is a Polish Greek artist, her art style has been compared to Paul Cezzane and Auguste Renoir by art critics. A self-motivated and passionate artist, Magdalena combines the classical with modernity, as she takes timeless subjects or topics and presents a modern rendition of it. Magdalena paints using a variety of mediums including; oils, pastels, charcoals, and works on various creative projects. Magdalena is especially drawn to working on portraits and pays special attention to get a true likeness of the eyes as she firmly believes that our “eyes are windows to our souls”. We had the opportunity to catch up with Magdalena and discussed current events inspiration and life. The world has changed at such an accelerated pace since the beginning of this year, how are you coping with all these changes? This is true that since the beginning of this year we observed a lot of changes and this is disquieting. It is a difficult situation for all of us, what is the most shocking and a bit paradoxical in this all is the fact, that the reason of these fast changes is because the world suddenly stopped. Covid-19 made over almost all our reality in a very short time and influenced for every aspect in our life like habits, the way we work and social. The lockdown wasn’t different for art life and in this case it has impeded the organisation of exhibitions, meetings with other artists and exchange the views. If we can find a positive side of this situation, the isolation’s time was also the moment for reflection and looking for
new inspirations. Downtime plays an important role in a creative person’s day. How do you deal with it? Like I said before the downtime was hard, for sure, but also had some positives. Maybe it was difficult to live normal, however it was very productive and constructive time for me. Covid-19 sparked a lot of different emotions in me, negatives but also positives ones. All these feelings were the inspiration to create new series of paintings like the Covid collections and others. I took advantage of the downtime to overflow my creativity and transferred all my ideas on canvas. You work with many different mediums including; oils, pastels and charcoal but which is your favourite medium of choice? It is really hard to choose only one
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