Kamil Swiatek is a multi-disciplinary artist from Toronto, Ontario who has been painting since the late 1990s. Swiatek explores the theme of identity through the subconscious mind as an internal landscape. Painting, photography, drawing, sculpting, writing short stories, poetry and film help him understand and examine the inner workings of the subconscious.

He graduated in 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting with a minor in Photography from the Ontario College of Art and Design University. He has shown his work in local galleries in Toronto and the surrounding areas.

I explore the spontaneity, movement and transcendence of a moment, capturing the present as it fully engulfs as a landscape of the human subconscious. Sensory processes are heightened and intensified. A tranquil stillness emerges and I’m elevated into a meditative state that delves below the surface of awareness; an uncharted environment of identity.

Working intuitively, I embrace a certain loss of control as the sensation of time and space dissolve; an escape of rational control into the subconscious. This metamorphosis into the depths of identity is communicated visually through mark making, texture and colour.