Wyszomirska-Noga

ABOUT

I am a visual artist and art conservator based in London. My practice is rooted in the belief that engagement with art - whether as an observer, a connoisseur, or a maker - an offer a profound, therapeutic experience. I explore themes of childhood, motherhood, and womanhood, understanding them as universal experiences that shape our identities and histories.

Children often appear in my work accompanied by their toy-attributes - objects held as intimate symbols of personal narrative. I paint mothers and children embracing, breastfeeding women rendered in the archetypal form of Madonna Lactans - an image of eternal, unconditional love.

I am deeply interested in memory and how it shapes the self, as well as the complex histories of displacement - past and present - that form the backdrop of many of my creative projects.

As an art conservator, I see the preservation of cultural heritage as essential to understanding our collective and individual present. The care and study of historic objects inform my appreciation for material, texture, and time - sensibilities that directly feed into my studio practice.

My artistic process is deeply tactile and intuitive. I often work in series and use repetition and layering, yet each work emerges as distinct. I have been drawing since childhood, and over the years have developed a strong command of traditional, hands-on techniques on paper and canvas - particularly drawing, charcoal, and pastel painting. This solid foundation gives me the confidence to experiment freely and push the boundaries of the materials I use. The physicality of creation - the feel of substrate, the resistance of paint, the layered accumulation of meaning - is inseparable from the intellectual and emotional journey of making. My art studio is rarely tidy; the act of creating is, for me, inherently messy, exploratory, and alive.

I sometimes question whether art - or any human effort - can truly alter destiny. Yet I remain compelled by the human impulse to create, to reach for meaning, to try. This tension between hope and fatalism often echoes through my work and is central to my artistic inquiry.

- Z. Wyszomirska-Noga