Hey! My name is Marta Witkiewicz, and I’m a Polish traditional artist working primarily in oils and graphite.
I grew up in Polish countryside surrounded by forest, animals, and vast fields. That scenery ingrained in me a deep love and respect for the natural world and Slavic customs, traditions and work of hands. Without access to many goods, between the chores, I’ve been spending time creating characters from scratch using materials at hand like scraps of fabrics, sticks or feathers and living my own invented stories. This strong desire to be able to create everything I imagine was much stronger than the voices around telling me which path I should fallow. So I left my country in search of knowledge, techniques, and tools I needed to bring those dreams into reality.
During the classical atelier education in Canada and Spain, focused mostly on strict academic approaches, my heart was divided between the beauty and discipline of fine art, the techniques of Old Masters and the boundless imagination of magical realism and illustration. In my personal work, I strive to build bridges between those worlds, using the foundations I’ve learned and the power of storytelling to create imaginative works. I want to grasp and spread the spark that makes people dream, wonder, and believe that anything is possible.