Yoanna Futerra

I started drawing before I even learnt to speak. I was drawing on all walls in my house and every single clean piece of paper that got into my hands. When I was a child my dream was to have an endless amount of paper to be able to express my childhood dreams and visions of the world by way of my drawings. When I decided to go to Arts Secondary School, and then to University, I didn't think of becoming an artist, I was only glad that I chose a school where the thing I love doing - creating art- will be my main duty.

In visual arts the most important thing for me is the visual message, an idea, a thought which everyone has a chance to read regardless of the language they speak or the cultural background they come from. It is a message on universal values, relations between people and their emotional state, an attempt to present all the things that seem to us plain, normal and usual in an unusual way.
I highly value oil paintings because it gives me a huge variety of technical means for creating a picture in which I can express everything I want. From soft touches of brush and gentle, subtle diffusion of colours to sharp, dynamic hits of palette knife and sharp, intense contrasts.
I look for inspiration either within myself, ...

Education:
University of Fine Arts in Poznan ( Poland ). Specialisation: Multimedia Art Communication, Artistic Education.Masters Degree in Fine Arts.
The Secondary School of Fine Arts in Lublin, Specialisation: Design; The diploma of Arts Technician.

Exhibitions:
2016- Blackheath Gallery. London
2016- Lyrath Estate,Kilkenny, Ireland/
2009 The Grapevine, Kilkenny, ( Ireland ) /
solo 2009 The International Womens Day Event, MacDonagh Junction, Kilkenny, ( Ireland )/
solo 2008 The Jesuits Gallery, Poznan, ( Poland ).
2007 The Promotion Gallery in The School of Humanistic Studies and Journalism in Poznan (Poland)
2007 SPA Gallery Puszczykowo/Poznania (Poland)