Ewa Pandera graduated from Art Education in 2004 with a specialization in graphic design. She has since participated in international art workshops and designed promotional materials. Her art explores relationships and is inspired by everyday life, travel, and films. She works in various mediums including prints, drawings, paintings and ceramics. Ewa aims to continue developing her skills in graphic design and ceramics.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. Zink matrix plate size 20x20 cm

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

14. Photocopy of my sketch transferred
on to the zinc matrix plate

15. Photocopy of my sketch transferred
on to the zinc matrix plate

16. Copper matrix plate

17. 2010
“Dolls”
“Woman”

18. 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.

19. 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.
First work of the series made for my thesis.
Mezzotint made on copper matrix plate, size 43x58 cm

20. Series of “Followers”
matrix made of sand
paper covered with glue
to achieve different
shades of grey.
Size 50x70cm

24. Oil paint on cardboard
Made between 2001-2004
100x70 cm

25. Oil paint on cardboard
Made between 2001-2004
100x70 cm

26. Oil paint on cardboard
Made between 2001-2004
Size A3

27. 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.

28. 55x70 cm - 2005

29. Stoneware clay with grey
and white glaze
Size about 20 cm - 2009

30. Stoneware clay with
turquoise
and yellow glaze
Size about 20 cm - 2010

31. Biscuits fired –
stoneware clay
painted with copper
acrylic paint.
Size about 20 cm - 2011

32. 2012

33. 2012

34. Sawtry Academy display
December 2012

38. Drawings inspired by dances of shadows on the flat surfaces
2004

39. Figure drawing create with compressed charcoal or graphite pencil
on sugar paper size 70x100 cm create between 1999-2001

40. Graphite pencil on sugar
paper size 70x100 cm
Create between 2004-2006

41. 8B graphite pencil applied
on to coated fine paper,
that gives shiny effect like
metal, then with eraser
create intentional drawing
- 2006

42. Combined drawing
and painting, experiments
with different texture
and materials - 2006-2007

43. 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.

44. Created for polish-express tabloid during short apprenticeship in 2007

47. Created for Cieszyn City Hall for Christmas in 2003

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

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

50. Jigsaw puzzle kids game with photos
of town monuments, design on
commission for Cieszyn City Hall.
Composed in Adobe Flash - 2004