Ewa Medrek 'Downpour' Print Available

Artist: Ewa Medrek
Title: Downpour
Medium: 1 Color Linocut Print
Size: 38 x 27 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Price: $80

 

Ewa Medrek is a Polish Canadian artist who invites viewers into a dreamscape where botanical elegance meets modern digital craft. Born in Kraków, she studied graphic arts at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, absorbing centuries of European printmaking tradition before relocating across the Atlantic. Her Etsy storefront, EwaMedrekGraphiques, serves as both gallery and laboratory, offering archival giclée prints, hand finished canvases and downloadable wall art that carry her distinctive vision into homes around the world.

Medrek’s imagery flourishes in muted jewel tones and soft gradients, depicting stylized flowers, birds and female silhouettes that float in undefined space. She begins each piece with loose graphite sketches, then layers watercolor washes, digital painting and subtle gold foil accents, building depth that feels simultaneously vintage and contemporary. The absence of hard edges allows petals and feathers to melt into one another, suggesting movement caught between breaths.

Influenced by Art Nouveau posters, pre war botanical illustrations and the quiet melancholy of Eastern European folklore, she seeks to create beauty that functions as emotional sanctuary. Her limited edition prints often sell out within hours, yet she keeps prices accessible, believing original art should belong to more than galleries and museums. Commissions have included album covers for indie folk bands, wine label series for Niagara vineyards and large scale murals inside wellness spas, each project expanding her vocabulary of organic forms.

When not drawing, Medrek explores Montréal greenhouses with sketchbook in hand, collecting reference material and teaching workshops on digital illustration techniques. Through every piece she offers a gentle reminder that grace still exists, waiting to be noticed in the curve of a stem or the hush of a moonlit garden.