Hi!

My name is Natalia Chirkowska and I’m a Polish illustrator currently based in the UK.

I studied History of Art at the University of Warsaw and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Once I obtained my MA degree, I briefly studied Illustration at Cardiff School of Art and Design.

My work has appeared in various magazines such as Revista Pantera or Popshot Quarterly, and the first picture book I illustrated, Ten Pan (eng. That Man), was published in Poland by Widnokrąg in autumn 2023. In the same year, it received a distinction in the Polish Section of the IBBY’s Book of the Year Award in the Illustration category.

I was also a winner of the 2021 Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, as well as longlisted for the Folio Book Illustration Award 2023.

Exhibitions:

2025 Illustrators Salon, Poznań Book Fair, Poland

2024 Plant Forest at Home, 1916 Cultural and Creative Workshop of Cultural Heritage Park in Taichung, Taiwan

2023-2024 Babalunga i Kamolongos (BABA KAMO - illustrated book festival and fair), Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània - CCCC de València, Spain, group exhibition

2021-2022 Art Museum and Library, Ota, Japan, group exhibition

2021 Hamamatsu City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan, group exhibition

2021 Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan, group exhibition

2021 Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, group exhibition

2021 Bologna Children's Book Fair 2021 Illustrators Exhibition, group exhibition

2020 Curated for Covid, online group exhibition (curated by Rachael Neale and Beth Rodway)

2020 About This Studio: Film, online group exhibition (curated by Laina Deene and Freya Croissant)