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Kasia Pacanowska Wittie painting people, in portraits and life scenes, is the art focus of Kasia Pacanowska Wittie. Long having mastered the nuances of portraiture, she is a painter of thoughts and emotions. Even her most formal works show the subtle interplay of feelings in her subjects. She is long celebrated in Europe.

Kasia Wittie has a magna cum laude Master of Fine Arts in both painting and graphic arts. Her classical art education at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the renowned Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam honed her talent and formed her lasting respect for traditional values in art. Her works extol the beauty of life and human nature.

Her paintings have been featured in 14 one-person exhibitions (nine in Europe; five in New York) and 38 group art shows, including 16 in New York, where she moved in 1995. She worked in Warsaw as art director for several national magazines and for Toyota Motor Poland, where she was responsible for all visual advertising in Poland in 1993-94. As a free-lance designer, she created 66 book covers, painted three Man-of-the-Year covers, and for years supervised all Polish National Tourist Agency advertising.

Her memberships include American Society of Portrait Artists, NY Society of Portrait Artists, and Portrait Society of America. She has works in many art galleries: B. J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington NY; Chrysalis Gallery, Southampton NY; CSH Arts Center & Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor NY; Gallery North, Setauket NY; Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, Manhattan NY; Signature Gallery, West Hartford CT; Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn NY.

Kasia Wittie has instant rapport with people. Painting their charm, warmth, sensitivity, wisdom and smiles is her great pleasure and challenge. In painting scenes from life, she strives to show the moods that vibrate between people and fill their world. Kasia Wittie seeks not only to portray the features of people but also to define their inner values.

 

 

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