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At one point in my life, I genuinely considered becoming a pope.
That career path did not materialise — mostly due to a combination of basic eligibility criteria and my temper — so instead I became an artist and a writer, which is a similar job, just with fewer robes and slightly less authority. I still impact souls though…

I was born in Poland, in the Beskid mountains, in the late 80s — which was a very specific time and place to be born. The mountains were beautiful, but the political and economic reality was… educational. People of my generation learned very quickly how to be resourceful, resilient, and creative, not as a lifestyle choice but as a strategy. You grew things, fixed things, reused things, built things yourself, and tried very hard not to lose your identity in the middle of constant change.

As a teenager, I travelled a lot with music bands, which exposed me early to different countries, religions, cultures, and ways of living. That experience made one thing very clear to me: a closed mind is always afraid of difference, while an open mind becomes stronger because of it. You can’t be curious and prejudiced at the same time — the two simply don’t coexist very well.

My cultural background still shapes my work. I draw a lot from the visual culture of the Polish highlanders — traditional patterns, ornamentation, craftsmanship, and a very strong connection to nature. But probably the biggest influence were the women I grew up around: strong, capable, resilient, practical, and quietly powerful. Women who carried heavy things, solved real problems, held families together, and still had the patience to create something delicate and beautiful with their hands in the evening. That kind of femininity — strong, grounded, not decorative but essential — appears in my work again and again.

Alongside my artistic work, I work in mental health, often with people who are labelled, excluded, or misunderstood by systems that were not designed for them. This work changes how you see the world. You start noticing how many social rules are made up, how many labels explain nothing, and how often society builds walls and then blames people for not being able to climb them. I also see how differently people can think, feel, and perceive — and how much intelligence and creativity exists outside what we call “normal”.

I am also neurodivergent myself, which probably explains why I move quite naturally between fields, mediums, and ways of thinking.

Now I live in London — a city that contains everything: beauty, chaos, opportunity, inequality, cultures, languages, ambition, loneliness, brilliance and absurdity — often all on the same street. For someone like me, it is less a city and more a laboratory of human nature.

All of this feeds my work.
Mountains and big cities.
Tradition and experimentation.
Strength and delicacy.
Systems and individuals.
Neurodiversity and structure.
Women, identity, inequality, resilience, and the quiet intelligence people develop when life does not make things easy.

I don’t fit into boxes.
So I build new ones.

• Master’s in Editing & Social Communication – University of Silesia, Poland

• Master’s in Project Management – University of Law, London

• NVQ3 in Adult Care +  Doorman License Level 2

• A levels  in Polish, English and History of Art

• A collection of certifications in marketing, design, copywriting, localisation, retail management, business management, communication, health care and psychology.