Wiesława Burnat

Born in 1964 in Szczecin. Since 2002 she has been a member of the Artistic Association of European Integration in Szczecin. She has participated in many individual and collective exhibitions, including in Szczecin, Warsaw, Poznań, Lübeck, Schwedt, Berlin, Strasbourg, Bergen. Favorite techniques - acrylic painting and mixed techniques. She also deals with children's illustrations. In 1997 she illustrated the book "Śnieżynek" by A.D. Liskowacki, in 2016 "Rosnę" by Mariola Fajak-Słomińska and in 2011 the book "Dzieci w ogrodzie" by Dorota Gellner was published with her illustrations. In 2010 she was invited to the Illustrators' Salon accompanying the 9th Poznań Fair Meetings "Books for Children and Youth". In 2012, the fairy-tale motifs she designed appeared on the walls of the Children's Ward of the Hospital on Arkońska Street in Szczecin as part of the social program "Children's World in Colors" implemented by the Paint and Varnish Factory Śnieżka SA. In 2022, her illustrations were presented at the exhibition "Oh my, I'm illustrated" organized by the Pomeranian Library in Szczecin, presenting the works of West Pomeranian illustrators of books for children and youth. Her favorite motifs are animals and nature. Her favorite hero of her paintings is a CAT, which combines beauty, magic, charm and mystery. A cat can contemplate the beauty of the world, appreciate and notice the beauty and transience of the moment, the beauty of nature - just like a painter who prefers poetic, fairy-tale atmospheres, wants to stir the sensitivity and imagination of children and adults.