Catherine Karina Chmiel
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Catherine Karina Chmiel-Gugulska (born Katarzyna Karina Chmiel) is a Polish artist and illustrator who has created drawings and pictures on many different subjects. Her most notable work are likely those which depict and accompany the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
. She has annually represented Poland at the international Tolkien art exhibition Images of Middle-Earth
in Italy since November 2002, and has participated in the Tolkien journal Aiglos since its inception, writing, illustrating and translating.
Chmiel is a regular contributor to the works of various publishing companies, including Prószyński i S-ka and Egmont
She has also worked with many advertising agencies such as J. Walter Thompson, Leo Burnett
and Saatchi & Saatchi
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Chmiel also enjoys studying zoology
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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
. She has annually represented Poland at the international Tolkien art exhibition Images of Middle-Earth
Images of Middle-Earth
Images of Middle-Earth was an international Tolkien art exhibition that started in Italy including more than 170 artworks.The exhibition was first held in August 2002 at the Agolanti Fortress, Riccione...
in Italy since November 2002, and has participated in the Tolkien journal Aiglos since its inception, writing, illustrating and translating.
Chmiel is a regular contributor to the works of various publishing companies, including Prószyński i S-ka and Egmont
Egmont Publishing
The Egmont Group is a media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark. The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise media generally....
She has also worked with many advertising agencies such as J. Walter Thompson, Leo Burnett
Leo Burnett Worldwide
Leo Burnett Worldwide is an American advertising company, created in 1935 by Leo Burnett. The company was opened in Chicago in 1935. In 1950 the company started its two first major advertising projects, for Kellogg’s and P&G....
and Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency network with 140 offices in 80 countries and over 6,500 staff. It was founded in London in 1970 but now headquartered in New York. The parent company of the agency group was known as Saatchi & Saatchi PLC from 1976 to 1994, was listed on the London...
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Chmiel also enjoys studying zoology
Zoology
Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...
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