Anna Alicja TROCHIM (b. 1952), So long as you don't get lost; 2022

Oil, canvas; 90 x 90 cm
Signed on the back: Anna Alicja TROCHIM/ 2022/ BYLE SIĘ NIE ZGUBIĆ

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She received her diploma with honors in the Painting Studio of Prof. Stefan Gierowski, an annex in mural painting from Prof. Ryszard Wojciechowski, an annex in visual structures from Prof. Roman Owidzki. Winner of many awards, including Talens Company Award I, II award at the Festival of Young Art of the Warsaw Environment in 1979. Co-organizer of many charity events, including an auction for the benefit of the Oncological Hospice in Warsaw and a nationwide auction "Element" at the National Museum in the capital. The artist has had many solo exhibitions in Warsaw, Stockholm, Vilnius, Paris, Budapest, Moscow and Berlin, among others. Anna Alicja Trochim's paintings can be found in museum and private collections at home and abroad, among others in the collection of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
Anna Alicja Trochim family and spiritual ties to Podlasie. For the painter, her first encounter with art was an encounter with nature. As a child she was enchanted by the rainbow and this admiration, this fascination accompanies the artist to this day. Also inspiring was her work on the land, which she used to create "paintings" of emerging crops. This almost divine delight in the beauty of nature through the artist's paintings becomes our participation, we are invited to contemplate the all-encompassing beauty.