Ewa Matyja is a Polish painter currently based in Bali, Indonesia. Ewa's work as an artist is inspired by her travels. She has been invited to join prestigious Artist Residency Programs around the world — from China,...

Ewa Matyja is a Polish painter currently based in Bali, Indonesia. Ewa's work as an artist is inspired by her travels. She has been invited to join prestigious Artist Residency Programs around the world — from China, to Canada, to Thailand and more. As a self-taught artist I paint to challenge myself. The amount of creativity that was storage inside me for years, creates unexpected pieces that are abstract visualization of all my previous experiences. 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 exploration and journey of discovery. It is a learning process that involves experimenting and making mistakes to achieve powerful paintings. In every piece I create I try to show beauty in imperfection. 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 process is dynamic and involves working intuitively on several pieces at the time to create dialogue between them, moving from one to another allows me to develop the ideas and pushing the boundaries. This is no going back or correcting process.