Olga (b. 1998) is an illustrator based in Warsaw, working primarily with oil pastels, crayons and drawing techniques. Her practice focuses on observing everyday life and human body and translating emotions into symbolic, intimate scenes.
Through simplified forms, vibrant colors and a slightly childlike visual language, she explores the relationship between the body, nature and inner emotional landscapes.

Her works often depict figures, gestures and ordinary objects that become carriers of feelings, memories and fleeting moments. Treating illustration as a visual diary, she captures fragments of daily life and transforms them into poetic, sometimes surreal narratives. Her illustrations exist somewhere between a diary and a dream — visual notes that transform ordinary moments into poetic, emotional narratives

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In my artistic practice, I would like to explore the tension between emotion and emptiness, intimacy and vast landscapes. During the residency at Hektor, I would like to create a series of pastel drawings — hybrid works between illustration and painting — focused on the relationship between human vulnerability and the desert environment.

I see the desert as both a physical landscape and an emotional state: a space of silence, distance, and apparent void. Using pastels, I want to build delicate, almost fragile surfaces where small human figures coexist with expansive, minimal horizons. The powdery, tactile quality of pastel will allow me to express subtle emotional transitions — between presence and absence, isolation and quiet resilience.