Out and about in the mountains – New drawings

Many of Malgosia Jankowska’s pictures bring to mind quotes from Grimm’s fairy tales or lines from romantic Eichendorff poems. Yet she shows anything but mere forest and nature idylls.

Naturally, she takes a neo-romantic direction with her drawings (in which she uses felt-tip pens as well as watercolors). However, her forest scenes are ambivalent. Tranquil idyll or threatening backdrop? Nature with its power of attraction or also with its frightening power. In any case, there is something floating and mysterious about these large-format drawings. Malgosia Jankowska seems to want to breathe something enchanted, something enchanting into the fairytale-like scenes in the act of drawing.

Martin Preisser – St. Galler Tagblatt