Black and white photo of a woman with curly hair, wearing a button-up shirt and sitting with hands clasped, smiling at the camera. Marika Jozwiak

Marika Jozwiak began with painting. Before architecture, before interiors, before everything else, there was a line on canvas.

She became one of Poland's most recognized interior architects. She wrote books on design and renovation. She shaped how people think about their living spaces. But painting never left. It was there first and it remains the closest to who she is.

Her work lives between architecture and emotion. Figures drawn in a single, unbroken gesture. Color fields that balance space the way light balances a room. Subjects that move between people, structure and abstraction.

Where architecture asks how a space should function, her paintings ask how it should feel.