Joanna Szczygiel is a London-based artist whose practice is shaped by both fine art and architecture.

She trained in painting, drawing, sculpture, and graphic design before completing a Master’s degree in Architecture in Krakow and studying at the University of Tennessee, USA. This dual background continues to inform her sensitivity to structure, balance, and spatial tension within the canvas.

 

She works primarily with oil paint on linen, using colour, texture, and strong contrast to build compositions through layered surfaces and expressive brushwork. Her paintings often begin with fragments — memories of places, journeys, or imagined spaces — and evolve intuitively rather than from a fixed image.

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​​

​​

​

​

​​​​​​

​​

​

​

Influenced by the Polish Kapists and artists such as Mark Rothko and Howard Hodgkin, she is particularly interested in the atmospheric and emotional potential of colour. Her work moves between abstraction and suggestion, allowing space for interpretation rather than narrative certainty.

Her paintings have been exhibited in London and are held in private collections in Poland, the USA, and the UK.