About Jolanta Gnyla
Jolanta Gnyla was born in 1971 at Krakow, Poland.
She first became interested in ceramics and colour at the age of 10, when she was being taught by Barbara Golonko who is a teacher of Art. Barbara Golonko discovered that Jolanta had a natural intuition for how colours work together. Jolanta went on to study painting and ceramics at school.
After she left school, Jolanta worked at a Community Centre with other artists in Krakow , teaching community art projects to school children and the disabled. During her time at the community centre Jolanta also worked with art lecturers from the Krakow Academia.
Jolanta then worked with Marita Benke-Gajda who specialise's in the design of ceramic figurines who is a lecturer at the Academia of Art. She also worked Iwona Stolarczyk who is a specialist in still life paints , who encouraged Jolanta to promote her work more widely. Her work has sold in the United Kingdom, America, Holland and Poland
Jolanta says of her work that both ceramics and painting are an obsession. Her work evolves from how she feels about herself and thinking about the great artists that she has studied. She says that she now has time to be inspired so that her art can progress to new levels.
"My happiness is in my hands" - Jolanta Gnyla 2007
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2008 - The Hague. Holland. Exhibition of Paintings "Universe of the Soul" at ZonMw, The Hague.
2006 - to present - Artist and Ceramicist working from Fired Art Ceramic Cafe, Ryde Isle of Wight.
1996 - 2006 - Artist and Ceramicist working part-time from her own studio in Krakow.
November 2004 - scholarship in Batik.
July - August 2004 - Ceramiczne Dialogi 2002 - ceramic design, production and firing. Working with other artists, culminating in an exhibtion of the work produced.
July - August 2003 - Ceramiczne Dialogi 2002 - ceramic design, production and firing. Working with other artists, culminating in an exhibtion of the work produced.
July - August 2002 - Ceramiczne Dialogi 2002 - ceramic design, production and firing. Working with other artists, culminating in an exhibtion of the work produced.
February 2002 - run workshop on mask making for a fund raising event sponsored by Novo Nordisk.
1999 - 2002 - Worked as Creative Arts Director of a charitable unit Krakow which was sponsored by BP, working with deprived children and fund raising for the children's' ward at Krakow Hospital.
Summer 1998 - Diploma winner for a design, based on the fusion of traditional and modern Polish folklore masks.
1st April 1996 - Winner of Competition to design ceramic centre pieces.
15th February 1996 - Winner of the Skarbiec Gallery, St. Valentines Ceramic design competition
14th March 1994 - Held 1st Exhibition of paintings and ceramics in Krakow.