“Cyclades remain central to my practice ”

— Justyna Borucka

Here, sustained contact with land, light and geological time informs both my fine art work and the material studies developed within Islander Art Lab.

Working with materials sourced directly from the landscape is not a stylistic choice, but a commitment to coherence between environment, process and form.

I am a mixed-media artist working across painting, photography and object-based practices.

Since 2018 my studio is based on the island of Paros, and since 2021 I have been a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece.

I was born in Warsaw and raised in Milan, and I later lived and worked in London for over a decade.

Growing up in Italy shaped my sensitivity to Mediterranean light, landscape and material presence from an early age.

Spending many consecutive summers in Liguria, amid its dramatic and phenomenal landscapes where sea and land meet, deepened this sensibility and gave me a lasting awareness of nature’s textures, rhythms and transformations.

What began as an emotional connection to place gradually evolved into a structured artistic practice rooted in landscape, geology and direct engagement with matter.

In 2010, after graduating from Chelsea College of Art and Design, I relocated my studio to the Greek islands. Over the years I have worked between Skyros, Andros, Mykonos and Paros, choosing to exchange the intensity of London for a slower, materially grounded way of living and working.

My work has been presented in institutional contexts including “Topos Embodied: Beauty Constructs and Female Landscape” at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

I am also a co-founder of Paros Creatives.

Selected works are held in private collections across Europe.