Monika Jonak
First and last name
Monika Jonak
Date of birth
1988, Rybnik
Monika Jonak has been drawing and painting from an early age, studied graphic design for three years and then worked as a computer graphic designer for a short period. For four years she created for the Gallery of European Painting in Rybnik, where she also taught a course in oil painting and had a permanent exhibition of all her works there. While working for the gallery, she painted an 8 x 2.5 m Panorama of Rybnik, which is currently on display at the music school in the Rybnik concert hall. 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 am inspired by a face seen on a bus, sometimes by a situation, many ideas also come at night when I can't sleep or when I am dreaming, while painting they are usually still being processed.
In my paintings, I often try to show beauty where there is no beauty according to learned standards. When I create, I enter a trance, a form of meditation for me, a complete detachment from the outside world. Painting helps me to express myself consciously or often less consciously, sometimes when I paint a picture I focus solely on its visual side, thinking that this time it is a picture without any content, after I have finished or while painting it turns out that this is not quite the case... as if something inside wants to communicate with me."