Urszula Bydlińska

ALAMA MATER

Born in the mid 1970s, she lives in Siedliszcze on the river Wieprz and works for an internet company. For as long as she can remember, her pencils have never left her side. She would draw on literally anything, including old, family photos, where a few stokes of a red marker would bring new life to black-and-white images of distant aunts and cousins. She sketched animals, faces seen in newspapers, and anything her rich imagination managed to conjure up. Then, through a chance meeting with Lucyna Pomianowska, a professional painter who regularly spent her holidays in Urszula’s village, the young artist was introduced to oil painting. Her greatest passion has always been church art – icons, traditions, wood paintings, and above all - images of the Virgin Mary.