Ewa SEVERIN (b. 1960), Elation, 2023

mixed technique (pastel, charcoal), paper, 64 x 50 cm, signed p.d.: E Seweryn 2023

Ewa Seweryn, née Romanchuk, born 1960, grew up in a simple, artistic family, where beauty and artistry was passed on to her every day. Her Mom - a warm woman with amazing manual skills - and Dad, with an artistic soul - a draftsman, designer, sculptor, builder and musician - developed in her a love of art from an early age. In fact, Dad was her first teacher of drawing and sculpture.

In 1975, she passed to the State High School of Fine Arts in Kielce, at the Faculty - Sculpture.
During her 5 years of study at this school, she won numerous awards:

- 1st place in a competition for outdoor sculpture, organized by the Department of Culture and Art in Tomaszow Mazowiecki.

- First place for participation in the competition for - H.Czarnecki medal (35th Anniversary of P.L.S.P. in Kielce).

- Participation in the design and implementation of a monument in honor of Polish soldiers in Tomaszow Mazowiecki.

- First place in the school poster contest - "Cosmos '80".

- Second place in the National poster competition - "Moscow '80".

After graduating with honors from the State High School of Fine Arts , earning the title - Conservator of Works of Art, she did not stop following the artistic path she had set.

She participated in Individual and Collective Exhibitions, such as:

- Author's Exhibition of Painting, August 1986. ( Gallery of the Company House of Culture F.Ł.T "Iskra" in Kielce)

- I Review of Non-Professional Art, September 1986. (Group exhibition),

- II Review of Non-Professional Art, September 1987(Collective Exhibition),

- III Review of Non-Professional Art,October 1988 (Collective Exhibition),

Where she received the 1st place and the Main Prize of the Director of F.Ł.T "Iskra" in Kielce.

- Author's Exhibition of Painting, Drawing and Graphics, January 1989. (Cooperative House of Culture "Witeź" in Kielce).

- Author's Exhibition of Painting and Drawing, June 1990.
- Author's Exhibition of Painting and Drawing and Graphics, November 1990 (Moena, Predazzo -Northern Italy).

She continued to develop and continues to develop her creative passion. She traveled throughout Europe, where she sold her works, but also primarily sought inspiration..... Her paintings are in private collections in Poland and abroad.

In her paintings, drawings or prints, she tries to combine observing nature with inner impressions. Therefore, nature is the primary inspiration of her works. Her painting is an imitation of nature rather than a deformation of nature, but she tries to avoid templateness and schematicity.

She is very fond of pencil, pastels, but her most common technique is oil, as the advantage of this technique is its durability and ease of obtaining intense, saturated colors,...colors she loves. She tries to make the choice of colors in her paintings a tool, to emphasize what is important and represent what is less important.
Despite 40 years of experience, during which she has created a great number of paintings, drawings, prints, pastels ( mostly commissioned) she is still on a constant quest...Her work is a constant struggle with nature and herself, requiring maximum personal commitment,and her life motto is that:

It is worthwhile in life to be guided by one's own choice, to try never to let one's talent go to waste, even if it is sometimes difficult and one encounters many obstacles on one's life path,.... continue to develop, be ourselves and do what we love in life.