Art lasts forever ­- a luxury, an indulgence. It is not a temporary luxury like food or wine, clothes or shoes. You grow up with the art you have in your house. It goes with you, and you don’t create your art collection all at once, it evolves over time. Art is a time stamp of a place and time in your life. You’ll never feel remorse after surrounding yourself with art you love'” ― Renia

I was born in New Zealand to a Polish immigrant family. My family moved to Australia in the late 1970s. After completing my schooling, university and Chartered Accounting studies in NSW, I moved to Europe in 1995 where I lived and worked in Switzerland, England and Germany for 15 years.

My children and I then moved to Perth, Australia in 2011 and I finally leaped into a lifelong passion for art and began painting. Paints, canvases and easels have taken over my home and I paint at every opportunity I can get!

The aesthetics and creativity of my mother Teresa have always inspired me to never stop trying new things: “a childhood full of beautiful home-cooked international food, my father would joke ‘never the same dish twice, especially if he said he liked it’, superbly sewn clothes and furnishings and a zest for craft and colour- whether making her own leadlight windows, restoring furniture or creating flourishing and colourful gardens wherever they lived.”