Magdalena Miernik (b.1970), Valor, 2010.

Work from the series: "Sins and Virtues".
oil, canvas, 140 x 120 cm
signed on the back

"We grow sins, ourselves. Or rather, we grow them in the gardens of life, like beautiful plants with stately flowers."

Magdalena Miernik - graduated from painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She studied in the ateliers of Prof. A. Brincken and Prof. J .Waltos, also at the Faculty of Graphic Arts - in the Gravure studio of Prof. A. Pietsch and in the Book and Typography studio of Prof. R. Banaszewski. In 2001 she received a diploma in easel painting in the studio of Prof. G.Bednarski. Since 2001, she has been a research and teaching fellow at the Institute of School Education at Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences in Kielce.
In 2010 she defended her doctoral thesis entitled Natural Quotes, under the direction of Prof. Małgorzata Bielecka.