73 x 100 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2023
Magdalena Malena Jankowska,bornin 1978inGdansk, Poland. Painter, muralist and performer , shecurrently lives in Warsaw andGdansk.She graduated fromthe Faculty ofFineArts at the Nicolaus CopernicusUniversity in Torun.
In the artist's paintings we see herlovefor the sea andlarge spaces. Thepaintingsare filledwithcharacteristic light-shadow.Space,light and temperaturetransportus into Magdalena'spleasant and joyful world.
Malenaemphasizes thesignificantinfluence of her GrandmotherIka, whowas acolorist, astudent ofJan Cybis,also a Sopotresident, a graduateof theStateHigherSchool of FineArts inGdansk,based in Sopot at24ObrońcówWesterplatteStreet(transformed into the Academy of FineArtsinGdanskafter 1954). Since early childhood,Malenastayedin her Grandmother's studio,absorbingthe spirit of painting in its pureform. The artist paints oil and acrylic paintings oncanvas, and realizes her projects inwall painting.Paintings arein collections inItaly, France in Germany, Scandinavia, Nepal , theUnitedStates , among others.
She is theauthor of the murals"Origami Seagulls" in Sopot and "Harbor Boy" inGdansk,as well as "Origami Boats" in Warsaw, andhascompletedher projectspersonally. The Sopotmuralislocatedonthe wall of a tenement in the center of Sopot, on Bohaterów Monte Cassino Street.
