Malgosia Jankowska

Painter Malgosia Jankowska was born in 1978 in Sochaczew, Poland, and studied painting in Warsaw and Berlin. With fine brushstrokes, she contrasts people and nature. She masterfully creates paintings of impressive depth and breadth, alternating translucent and pasty colors. Mysteriously, white light breaks through the tree trunks in some paintings like a white mist.

The filigree lines, along with the softened tones—sometimes restricted to a single color on a white background—reminiscent of the engravings in old storybooks. The scenes Malgosia's paintings invite us to are like a fairy tale. Literally, the word "fantastic" is also highly symbolic of the repertoire Jankowska explores in her painted world and has become a succinct characteristic of her art: Children in the forest, wolves, or colossal mushrooms are not just visual images of a reality borrowed in the manner of the Brothers Grimm. Malgosia has developed a set of figures entirely her own, which she always connects with one another. The child as an emblem of innocence, wandering freely through the dangerous forest, reflects a secret world of the subconscious. Nature becomes the space of buried fears and desires.