Monika Jonak

Monika Jonak - a painter born in Rybnik, in 1988, where she currently lives and works.

She has been drawing and painting since her early years, she studied graphics for three years, after which she worked as a computer graphic designer for a short period.

For 4 years she created for the European Painting Gallery in Rybnik, where she also taught an oil painting course, and where she also had her permanent exhibition of all her works.

While working for the gallery, she painted the Panorama of Rybnik measuring 8 x 2.5 m, which is currently exhibited at the music school in the concert hall in Rybnik.

At the end of 2019, she left the Gallery and opened her own art studio.

The author about her surrealist paintings:

"Ideas for paintings come at different times of the day, sometimes I'm inspired by a face seen on a bus, sometimes a situation, many ideas also come at night when I can't sleep or when I'm dreaming, while painting they are usually still being processed.
In paintings I often try to show beauty where according to learned standards there is no beauty. When I create I enter a trance, for me it is a form of meditation, complete cut-off from the outside world.
Painting helps me consciously or often less consciously express myself, sometimes when painting a painting I focus only on its visual side thinking that this time it is a painting without any content, after finishing or already during painting it turns out that it is not entirely so... as if something inside wanted to communicate with me."