Karolina Hajnas

Karolina is an Illustrator and printmaker who explores traditional illustration techniques with a focus on lino-cut. Her practice is inspired by long walks over our vast landscape which is seeped with stories waiting to be uncovered and cherished. Walk by walk she reveals the British landscape and reminders of those who came before, creating illustrations which capture the charm of stories passed on by word of mouth. Some things that inspire her work are geoglyphs and their mysterious origins, looking up in a church and seeing a carved green man staring back at her. Even broken pottery pieces and coins she finds on the streams and shores of Edinburgh, kept muddy in overflowing pockets. She aims to encourage people to engage in folklore and to cherish it, so that it can be enjoyed by those who come after us.