Born in 1956 in the southern Polish city of Wadowice, Marysia began her study of art at the Bielsko-Biala High School of Fine Arts. She then moved to Warsaw and entered the Polish Academy of Fine Arts where she majored in Graphic Arts with special emphasis on painting and drawing.
Marysia became a well-known artist in Warsaw and was the recipient of many prizes for her realistic portrayals of the human form, presented in oils, watercolours, and pencil. She graduated from the Academy with a Masters degree in art in 1981, and shortly thereafter immigrated to the United States.
After settling in southern California, Marysia’s artistic focus changed from the portrayal of human figures to landscapes and nature forms, and increasingly incorporated light, colour, and shapes in a continuous spiral of motion. She sought to resolve the intrinsic dichotomy between realistic and abstract art. This is apparent in both the colour and composition of her paintings. In her blending of these two conflicting approaches to art subjects, Marysia begins with a realistic approach to her subjects and as the work progresses, she subtly introduces the counterpoint of some abstract shapes and colours, which release the painting from the confines of rigorous realism and allows the viewer’s imagination to embrace not only the reality, but the dream as well.
