Joanna ABRA (pen name, b. 1986), Stairs by the Gdańsk Bridge (II), 2025

mixed media (acrylic, oil), canvas, 70 x 50 cm, signed lower right: JA. '25

Joanna Abra. (artist’s pseudonym), born in 1986.
She lives and works in Warsaw. A late-blooming artist, she discovered her passion for creating after turning 30. She develops her skills through private lessons and by working independently on her technique. In 2022, she made her debut on the Polish art market.

She primarily works in oil painting on an easel, though she also experiments with other creative techniques. Her works are realistic, leaning toward magical realism and surrealism—the movements from which she draws her greatest inspiration. Strong contrasts and saturated colors are evident in the realization of her artistic concepts, as is her fascination with space and the objects found within it. Both the night and day skies, along with the wealth of phenomena occurring within them, very often serve as the main subject or an essential context for the depicted theme. The urban landscape is a motif the artist frequently explores, most often portraying her beloved Warsaw. She also creates from her imagination, constructing somewhat mysterious, undefined spaces that exist somewhere beyond time and governed by their own laws. In her paintings, she strives to combine the earthly, material world with the spiritual, the elusive—that which transcends sensory experience and logical analysis.