Chmural is the signature of an artist who hand-prints linocuts in Gdynia – on T-shirts and as A3 prints – and also paints ceramics and makes rugs. Animals rule her designs – wolves and cats, for example. You will find her linocuts and prints at Locus Artis in Gdańsk.
Behind the Chmural signature is Żółta, who calls herself a chaotic craftsperson. Her studio is half a room in Karwiny, Gdynia. After thirteen years of working at a graphics tablet she needed to get her hands dirty with ink, clay and dust – to go back to her roots and remember what used to make her happy.
Chmural prints her linocuts by hand. The same design goes onto paper and onto a T-shirt (she calls them “lino-shirts”). Alongside her own designs, she also draws fan art.
Animals look out of her designs, drawn so much in her own way that she admits: “sometimes I hear that my wolves are dragons and my cats are demons”.
She calls acrylic markers the eighth wonder of the world, and loves linocut and ceramics for keeping you guessing until the very end. She doesn’t plan or measure too much: she leaves rough sketches and crooked lines so you can see the work of human hands.
The same creatures move from paper to clay. Chmural hand-paints plates, tiles, mugs and bowls, makes figurines, and she makes rugs too.
She takes her work to fan conventions, among them Futrołajki and Wroof in Wrocław. She is also keen on joint projects with other makers.
What she brought to Locus Artis.
To Locus Artis she brought two hand-carved, hand-printed linocuts of Fenrir on Nepalese paper, and prints in three designs – two of them reproductions of traditional paintings.
