Ewa Maj (b. 1986, Częstochowa) is a Polish painter working primarily in oil, with occasional forays into drawing. She earned her bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Painting in her hometown in 2013, then stepped away from art before returning to active practice in 2022.
Maj describes her work as "romantic radicalism," an approach guided by instinct and intuition rather than fixed plans. Her paintings draw on folk traditions and personal experience, populated by fantastical figures and folk motifs that build mysterious, magical visions. A line from Jerzy Kosiński - "During the day, the world was at peace. At night, the war went on" - became the starting point for her ongoing series Diaries Written at Night, in which she explores emotion and hidden thought. In these imaginative scenes, witches, fantastical beings, and other apparitions come alive in the corners of rooms, mirroring the sensory, instinctive world of her inner experience.
In 2023, she was shortlisted among a small group of artists for an exhibition with the American gallery Mepaintsme. The following year, her work was recognized by London's Artmaze magazine, which featured it in its pages.
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