Joanna Potepa, Polish visual artist and writer

I draw where silence stands

ABOUT

I draw, write, and photograph.

The drawings are built from hand-drawn geometry: circles, grids, ratios, repetition, and careful construction.

Geometry is not decoration for me. It is a way of finding order when life becomes hard to read.

Over time, the work moved from colour mandalas into black-and-white geometry, then into Graffita — a cycle where clean abstraction could no longer hold everything at a distance. The structure stayed, but something more human entered the surface.

Alongside the drawings I write Still Frames: short, true scenes from a life stretched between Poland, England and Spain, collected in the book It Happened. Make of It What You Will.

They are made from small concrete moments — a road, a room, a meal, a mistake, a shift in the air. Like the drawings, they do not explain everything.

They hold attention long enough for something to become visible.

Together, the visual and written work form Geometry of Life, my creative world. One uses line, proportion and silence. The other uses memory, detail and rhythm.

Selected drawings are available as fine art prints, originals and metal posters.

Logo - Joanna Potepa Studio

Archive

Some earlier and parallel bodies of work remain in external archives.

Be Exceptional holds a separate chapter of visual work.