Paulina Swietliczko

Paulina Swietliczko’s painting is inspired by everyday life, people, objects and the landscape. Native to Poland, she holds an MFA in Painting and Lithography from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland where she studied with Rajmund Ziemski and Jaroslaw Modzelewski. In 2012, she moved to Virginia from California, where she was a community college art instructor and an artist in residence at the Fresno Art Museum.

Currently, she lives in Roanoke, where she paints, teaches art in her downtown studio and is involved in the local art scene. In the summer of 2024, Swietliczko was Four Pillars artist in residence at Mount Gretna School of Art in Pennsylvania.