We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Angelika Andrzejewska. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Angelika below.

Hi Angelika, thanks for joining us today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

When I started studying architecture, I gained the basic understanding of what architecture really is, and what does it mean to be an architect. University taught me how to think creatively and how to express my way of perceiving space and buildings, with their relation to people. Work experience that I acquired along the way helped me to make use of these skills in more organized and I’d say down-to-earth way, when I was dealing with a very specific design for a real person.

I need to say I truly enjoyed the entry stages of the craft, which I would describe as ‘playing with architecture’. I’m more of an artistic and idealistic type of person, that is always prioritizing the idea of being curious about what’s emerging and what one can learn or cultivate through such experience. I try to be able to always step back and take a look at the big picture. Or in other words, to let things roll off my back and be less likely to be triggered by certain things.

When it comes to speed up the learning process in every kind of craft, I have a simple advice – read books:)

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’m an architect and interior designer born and raised in Warsaw, Poland. I completed my Masters’ degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Warsaw University of Technology, but I also spent some years studying in Milan and then in Rome. Currently I’m based in New York City, where I work as an interior designer.

Based on my love and fascination for American western media, I created the series of illustrations called When in the West, which is my ongoing personal project that has led me to become a freelance illustrator and drawing commissions in my spare time.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

Let them create! Artists most of the time are going to seek to find their own truth. They like to do things their own way and I believe they should have space and understanding for doing that. What a miserable world it would be without people that have a particular connection to their soul, inner spirit, nature, universe… whatever you name it.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

To be able to see beyond appearances. Whether immediately or a little later.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.angelika-andrzejewska.com
• Instagram: @angie_andrzejewska
• Linkedin: Angelika Andrzejewska
• Other: Instagram: @wheninthewest