The power of influence Painting

Ewa Matyja was born in 1985 in Poland. At the age of 20 she started to travel and she spend 15 years living between Europe, America and Asia. She worked most of her life in sales and fashion to drop corporate lifestyle in 2016 and dedicated fully to art and focus on becoming full time artist She has exhibited in solo exhibitions at Drukarnia Sklad Chleba i Wina, AirHair Studio or Alchemik Studio in Poznan, Poland. Matyja also has been included in various important group exhibitions including COMEL in Italy, New Avant-garde, Auction Houses or Stacja Design in various cities in Poland, The Other Art Fair in New York City and London, Minute16 in Berlin and several Online Exhibitions. She has been actively involved in art fairs and festivals in Poland, such as Art Fresh Festival, Officyna Art & Design Fair and The Other Art Fair presented by SaatchiArt in London and New York City. ARTIST STATEMENT As a self-taught artist I paint to challange myself. The amount of creativity that was storaged inside me for years, creates unexpected pieces that are abstract visualisation of all my previous expeirences. As an artist I create work that reflects emotions and chaos in life that we are living. I capture movement and life. To me art is ongoing explotration and journey of discovery. It is a learning proces that involves experimenting and making mistakes to achieve powerfull paintings. In every piece I create I try to show beauty in imperfction. My main source of inspirations are nature, architecture, people, culture and emotions that those elements have impact on me. I experiment mixing traditional materials like acrylic paint, charcoal, pastels, ink with local art supplies, elements of nature to create three dimension effect in my work. I am fascinated by textures and structures that we can find on every corner in the most unexpected corners of our surrounding. My proces is dynamic and involves working intuitively on several pieces at the time to create dialogue between them, moving from one to another allows me develop the ideas and pushing the boundries. This is no going back or correcting proces.