Portfolio Ewa Pandera

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My name is Ewa Pandera. In December 2004, I graduated from Art

Education in the University of Silesia in Cieszyn with specialization

in graphic design. During my studies the main specialization was

workshop and computer graphics. At that time I had many

opportunities to learn many applied techniques but also new and

experimental solutions in the field of Fine Art. I find graphic design

very inspiring and want to develop my knowledge and skills in this

area in the future.

My achievements resulted in participation in a few

international art workshops. I have cooperated with City Hall’s

Department of Promotion in Cieszyn designing promotion

materials. I also worked as Cultural Animator for a gallery

“Szara”. My responsibilities included coordination of exhibition

services, organizing contemporary art shows, designing

invitation materials and creating multimedia presentations of

the gallery “Szara”. The cooperation helped me gain very

important expertise.

All my art work is a result of every day observation of life,

people, relationships, changing surrounding, everyday

sorrows and joys.

I work in my sketchbook where I put initial ideas and then

sometimes they develop into more deep and detailed images.

My art is also inspired by travels, classic and innovative

movies.

Most important for me as an artist is the process of creating

the work of art exploring different techniques, inventing new

solutions for the desired results.


I had the opportunity to participate in few International Workshops in Ostrava, Czech

Republic, where I created serigraphy printings shown in the next few slides.

Some of them where inspired by trip to Odessa

and the Crimean peninsula. In the others I recreated shadows

in different techniques and medias.


Inspired by trip to Odessa in Ukraine.Three shades size 50x70 cm - Made on the friendship workshop in Ostrava 2003

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Work created as an offspring of my “Mirror” drawings.Size 50x70cm


Work created as an offspring of my “Mirror” drawings.Size 50x70cm


Piece of work where I generated hand shadow and its’ movement. Size 50x70cm-2003


I use various graphic techniques such as mezzotint, aquatint, aqua fort, dry needle, linocut and techniques created by my-self

where I used non etching properties of metal covered with photocopy ink.

Pregnant women and experiments with different poses formed with shadows were an inspiration.




Zink matrix plate size 20x20 cm



Photocopy of my sketch transferred on to the zinc matrix plate size15x20



Photocopy of my sketch transferred

on to the zinc matrix plate



Photocopy of my sketch transferred

on to the zinc matrix plate



Copper matrix plate



“Dolls”

“Woman”

2010


Followers have been my thesis at the University of Silesia in 2004

My work explores the relationship between acquired synaesthesia and daytime TV.With influences as diverse as Rembrandt van Rijn and Edward Munch, new insights are crafted from both traditional and modern dialogues.Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the ephemeral nature of relationships. What starts out as triumph soon becomes manipulated into a cacophony of temptation, leaving only a sense of unreality and the inevitability of a new order.As shifting replicas become transformed through studious and undefined practice, the viewer is left with an impression of the limits of our condition.


First work of the series made for my thesis. Mezzotint made on copper matrix plate, size 43x58 cm

Followers series were exhibited at the University of Silesia in Cieszyn in 2004, in the Library Gallery in Gliwice in June 2005

and “Transylvania” Gallery in Cracow in November 2005.



Series of “Followers”matrix made of sandpaper covered with glueto achieve different shades of grey.Size 50x70cm








Oil paint on cardboardMade between 2001-2004

100x70 cm



100x70 cm



Size A3


During my studies at University, I took part in a one year ceramic course. At that time I had the opportunity to learn many applied

techniques but also new and experimental solutions in the field of ceramics.

In the years 2005-2006 I volunteered in the ceramic workshop in Cracow in Poland. During that time I was taking part in a pottery workshop for children with disability helping them create little

animals from clay. I’m currently working in Sawtry Community College as a

Teaching Assistant, mostly in the Art Department. Part of my responsibilities is also to help in the pottery workshop.

I rediscovered my love of ceramics once again and I find it a very inspiring and creative and want to develop my knowledge and

skills in this area in the future.


55x70 cm - 2005



Stoneware clay with grey and white glazeSize about 20 cm - 2009




Stoneware clay with turquoise and yellow glazeSize about 20 cm - 2010


Biscuits fired – stoneware clay painted with copperacrylic paint.Size about 20 cm - 2011


2012


2012



Sawtry Academy displayDecember 2012





Drawings inspired by dances of shadows on the flat surfaces2004


Figure drawing create with compressed charcoal or graphite pencilon sugar paper size 70x100 cm create between 1999-2001


Graphite pencil on sugar paper size 70x100 cm

Create between 2004-2006


8B graphite pencil applied on to coated fine paper,that gives shiny effect like metal, then with eraser create intentional drawing - 2006


Combined drawing and painting, experimentswith different texture and materials - 2006-2007

These are examples of graphic designs I made during apprenticeship in City hall in

Cieszyn, Poland, as Art-Worker self-employed for different

clients and companies and also some Photoshop and CorelDraw

experiments.


Created for polish-express tabloid during short apprenticeship in 2007






Created for Cieszyn City Hall for Christmas in 2003

Simple online kids game design on commission for Cieszyn City Hall.Composed in Adobe Flash - 2004

Memory game with photos of Cieszyn town design on commission for Cieszyn City Hall. Composed in Adobe Flash - 2004

Jigsaw puzzle kids game with photos of town monuments, design on

commission for Cieszyn City Hall.Composed in Adobe Flash - 2004

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Portfolio Ewa Pandera