Welcome

My name is Katarzyna Skonieczna (pron: cath­rina sconetchna). I was born in Poland, I live at a lit­tle island of Cobh, South-West Ire­land and study Fine Art at the Craw­ford Col­lege of Art in Cork. I stud­ied lit­er­a­ture, phi­los­o­phy and the­ol­ogy back in Poland. I always wanted to study psy­chol­ogy but just didn’t have the right oppor­tu­nity. I used to express myself ver­bally by writ­ing short sto­ries (and end­lessly writ­ing a book, which remains unfin­ished as for now) and also — visu­ally by draw­ings but it was only a side inter­est. Then, after I made myself com­fort­able in Ire­land I got a strong need to deepen my adven­ture with art; so I applied to the near­est col­lege. My main inter­ests con­cern — above all — human con­di­tion in its purest phe­nom­ena — iden­tity, emo­tions, des­tiny (all art is about that — said my tutor and he’s right); then apects like colour, form, line. I’m pas­sion­ate about draw­ing, oils, pho­tog­ra­phy, print­mak­ing, instal­la­tion and animation/video art. I feel being inspired by Sur­re­al­ism, Cubism, Ger­man Expres­sion­ism and Fanatsy/Illustartion art (eg. Patric Woodroffe). I pro­posed David (whom I really grate­ful to for this pos­si­bil­ity) my con­tri­bu­tion — “Study­ing Art” where I am hop­ing to reflect on some basic aspects of studying/discovering art (which puz­zle and /or worry me) such as “What’s art and what is it for?” “Can art be taught/learnt — if yes which way?”, “Art in the past and today”, “What’s bad/good art?” etc. I would like also to keep a sort of a diary from my stud­ies — notes, study work, work­shops etc. Before I start I have to make you aware of two things — Eng­lish is not my mother-tounge, so I apol­o­gise in advance for any mis­spelling (no mat­ter how stu­pid it will look/sound) and for “rusty” usage of words/phrases; and another thing — I may not to be able to con­tribute on a regural basis — but I will do any­thing to keep my pos­i­tive influ­ence on this site.
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I kindly invite a lively response to my posts, because I don’t believe in writ­ing only to myself and to the Muse. Impor­tant part of why I’m doing this is a pre­cious oppor­tu­nity to exchange opin­ions and thoughts. Thanks