The Mattie King Davis Art Gallery is excited to welcome artists Gosia Tojza and Robert Knyzewski in April 2025. A free show will be held at the gallery on Saturday, April 6 from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Gosia and Robert will be the featured artists for the months of April and May.
Gosia Tozja, originally from Poland, comes from a family with a long history of artists; both her great grandfather and grandfather were fine artists. Gosia’s mother paints beautiful ikons, and her brother was a very charismatic and very gifted oil painter and film maker. She discovered painting as an art form twenty-two years ago.
Art has played a huge influence in Gosia’s life, she believes art has opened up a wide world that has introduced her to some wonderful people. She also explains that art has allowed her to self-reflect and become more aware of things in the world and to be present, which is reflected in her art. Gosia satates that the subject matter has an influence on her choice of medium, “I use oil paints because it gives me textures and pigments, this allows me to feel my strokes more and be more intuitive about how I paint.”
At the start of his painting journey, Robert heavily resisted as he is legally color blind. However, he has two women in his life who became mentors and teachers for him; Gosia and his sister who also maintains a passion for painting. Robert began to paint a year ago and has been painting practically everyday since. Just like Gosia, Robert is originally from Poland and arrived in the United States when he was about twenty-two years old. He made his way to Raleigh about twenty-seven years ago and has been working as an IT guy for NC SBI for the last twenty-five years. Robert also maintains other passions in piano, which he has played since childhood, and in skydiving. Unfortunately, he recently has had to take a break from the latter due to an accident during his forty-seventh jump. This show has been a welcome
Don’t miss this show and the opportunity to take home one of their lovely pieces! For more information about Gosia, Robert or the Mattie King Davis Art Gallery, please visit www.beauforthistoricsite.org, call 252-728-5225, or stop by the gallery on the grounds of the Beaufort Historic Site at 130 Turner Street, open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m