In this episode I interview the lovely Katarzyna (Kasia) Niedzielak who is an artist based on the southern end of the Central Coast. Kasia’s main medium is creating wet felting sculptures using natural fibres such as wool and all natural dyes which she makes from things like rust, leaves and flowers. Her artworks are ethereal and look like they come straight out of a fairytale, especially her seed pod sculptures which won her first place in the Pearl Beach Art Trail in 2023.

In our chat we spoke about how Kasia found her true connection to nature after moving to Australia from Poland and her deep love of the ocean, how attending festivals in the bush helped spark her creativity, the eco nature of her artwork and the importance of being able to leave her pieces outside in nature to break down without leaving an environmental footprint and the reality of being an artist.

Along with the practicalities of sculpting, Kasia also shares how nature is a gateway for communing with the divine and that making art is her favourite form of meditation. I was personally in a super creative period when we recorded this episode just before Christmas and I left the conversation feeling even more inspired. I hope that you get as much out of our chat as I did and I encourage you to look up Kasia’s artworks online to see their true beauty or better yet, try to see them in person!

Happy listening.

Links:

* Kasia’s instagram: @art_by_amboeba

*Apologies for the sound quality of this episode, we recorded on a very hot day in December with fans/air con so background noise cancelling technology makes us sound a bit tinny and glitchy at times

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