Magdalena KĘPKA (born 1977, Wroclaw, Poland)
In the Spanish sun, 2019.
oil, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
signed l. d. corner: 'MKępka 2019'
described on the reverse: 'IN THE SPANISH SUN | 100 x 100 cm, 2019 | MKępka'.
Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Painting in Wroclaw and the Academy of Physical Education in Wroclaw. She works in oil and acrylic, and the main themes of her works are Polish landscape, marine and architecture of the hot south. She has participated in many national and international painting competitions, plein-air events and numerous post-competition exhibitions. She has had 15 solo exhibitions (including at Małgosia Gallery in Wroclaw (three times), the Museum of Old Merchants in Świdnica, the Municipal Museum in Ruda Śląska, and the Maja Art Gallery in Toruń), and more than a dozen awards in painting competitions (including 7 major ones). Her works are part of the private collections of most European countries, as well as the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico, and Spanish state institutions and foundations. Major awards: 1st prize in the 4th Luis Fernandez Vergara Painting Contest, Viladecans, Spain, 2010; 1st prize in the 3rd Luis Fernandez Vergara Painting Contest, Viladecans, Spain, 2009; 1st prize in the 5th Corrales de Buelna (Cantabria) Painting Contest, Spain, 2009; 1st prize in the 14th Painting Contest of Castellar de la Frontera (Andalusia), Spain, 2009; 1st prize in the 1st Painting Contest of the Friends of Bees Foundation, Guadalajara, Spain, 2009; 1st prize in the Painting Contest "Rincones Santiago del Teide", Tenerife, Spain, 2008; 1st prize in the Painting Contest ''My Places'' of the store Maluje.pl, 2012.
