Grazyna Cydzik  is a London-based artist, born in Edinburgh of Polish and Polish-Armenian heritage. She has had an evolving art practice alongside a professional career in teaching. At present she teaches English at a Migrants’ Centre.

Grazyna’s art practice is theme-based and she works across different mediums mainly painting, hand printing, photography, and drawing. This is because it is the content of her work which dictates the medium- or most often- several in combination (mixed media). But also because she loves experimenting.

Although the starting point for a theme is often a news item, it can also be something personal. However, these two strands inevitably weave in and out of one another. She says ‘ I always hope that people will engage with my artwork- that its life is extended through the personal narratives they bring to it and through the emotions it evokes in them’.

Grazyna studied art in London at Chelsea College of Art, Byam Shaw School of Art ( part of Central St Martin’s), Kingston University and Art Academy London.

Art qualifications include an MA (with distinction) in Contemporary Art Practice and a Diploma in Contemporary Portraiture.

She has exhibited in selected group exhibitions in London including at ING Discerning Eye, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, with the Federation of British Artists and at the Gallery at Green& Stone- where in 2024 she received the Jakar International Award for the most interesting oil pastel. Outside London she has shown her work in Bristol at the Royal West of England Academy, and in Sheffield and Chichester.

In 2023 Grazyna’s artwork was shown on digital screens as part of group shows in Zurich and Miami and in 2024 in Basel.