Aneta Szoltis - Mencina
born 1980
Biography
She graduated from the Academy of Jan Dlugosz in Czestochowa in 2016 having a diploma with distinction in Graphic Arts under the supervision of Dr. Witold Zareba.
Educator, mediator, and graphic artist by education; graphic artist by heart and passion.
She works intuitively and spontaneously, the graphic matrix is for her a field of unlimited possibilities. She draws inspiration for her graphics from the love for nature, mountains, and birds. Her colorful works are created mainly in the linocut and monotypic technique, but she does not shy away from other graphic techniques.
Coming from Skoczow, lives in Czestochowa by choice. She is a woman stood in feelings and beliefs, a wife and a mother. For five years she has been running her own graphic studio, where she devotes herself to her passion - creation.
She takes part in group exhibitions and art competitions. Her prints are in private collections, incl. in Poland, Austria, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and the USA.
Exhibitions
Collective exhibitions:
2015 - "Traces of a black cat 1", Museum of Match Production, Częstochowa, Poland
2015 - "Village, workshop graphics", Municipal House of Culture in Radomsko, Poland
2017 - "Traces of a black cat 2", Museum of Match Production, Częstochowa, Poland
2019 - "Traces of a black cat 3, artistic and therapeutic project", Museum of Match Production, Częstochowa, Poland
2020 - "International Biennale of Miniature 11", post-competition exhibitions in:
2020 - Gaude Mater Culture Promotion Center, Częstochowa, Poland
2020 - Stanisław Staszic Museum- Gallery, Piła, Poland
2021 - TEST Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2021 - Bureau of Art Exhibitions, Tarnów, Poland
2021 - Nowohuckie Centrum Kulury, Krakow, Poland
2021 - Photo Gallery, Rzeszów, Poland
2021 - Galerie Brotzinger Art., Pforzheim, Germany
2022 - Art Review "Spring Salon", Operis.Artis Gallery, Antonin, Poland - distinction for work of art „Towards you I ascend”
