artist
Ewa Zeller was born in Poland. In 1998 she graduated from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland with M.A. Degree in Museum Science and Preservation and Research of Historical Heritage, Department of Fine Arts. She completed the program “Urban Heritage and Monuments Preservation” at Warsaw Politechnics at Department of Architecture. She completed Post-Graduate Study in conservation of Historic Monuments of postgraduate thesis that were awarded and published by National Institute of Culture in Warsaw 2000. From 1987 to 2003 she worked at the State Office for Preservation and Research of Historical Monuments and Heritage in Bialystok, Poland. She was proficient in scientific research of history and present condition of cultural heritage, in preparation of national catalogues and she was participating in a few conferences about the Monuments Protection at the reign whole Poland and Germany.
Since 2003 she resides in the United States and preoccupied with painting. She undertook studies of painting with various artists and at the PRATT Institute in Brooklyn, School of Visual Arts - Chealse Arts, Council of Princeton. She works with oil, acrylic, pastel and exhibited primarily in New Jersey, next in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New York. Her works can be found in private collections in U.S.A., in Foundation of John Paul II in Vatican City and Trenton Museum Society purchased one of them and also. Her first individual exhibit took place in Druch Studio Gallery in Trenton (NJ) February- March 2006 - and second in Skulski Art Gallery Clark in 17 October and November 2009 - then in PII Gallery in Philadelphia (PA) in December 2010 ( 3- 31).
Ewa is connected with Art's Council of Princeton - Gregory Perkel’s Art Studio and PRATT Institute in Brooklyn. Ewa exhibited primarily in New Jersey, next in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Her works can be found in private collections in U.S.A. and in Trenton City Museum. Her artwork includes portraits, still life and landscapes. Ewa works with oil, pastel, acrylic, watercolor, but recently her preferred medium is oil. Currently she paints as much as she can, training to find her own style of expression. Her painting style can be seen as a combination of realistic and impressionist work.
Ewa paints natural subjects in a combination of representative styles. The composition and color relationships are the drivers of each piece. All of the natural subjects can offer the opportunity to show off relationships of color, which is special for her. She takes into account the inspiration from her favorite polish artists of the “Young Poland” movement such as Alfons Karpinski, Jan Stanislawski, Stanistaw Wyspianski, Konrad Krzyzanowski and others. Nonetheless she does not hide equal appreciation for non-polish artists such as Paul Cezanne ,Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt. Ewa is an artist with old European background, searching for her original style among the modern realities of the New World. While having a concentration on the classic styles of Europe, Ewa evolves from these with a renewed sense of self. “The painting is my joy and delight and attempt to survive the chaos of the twenty first Century…” says Ewa.