Selected Works

Street in Snow

Street in Snow

Oil painting

Portrait of a Reader

Portrait of a Reader

Portrait

By the Sea

By the Sea

Landscape

Studio Interior

Studio Interior

Interior painting

Old Town Market

Old Town Market

Genre scene

Travel Sketches

Travel Sketches

Drawing

Paintings

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Drawings

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About

I was born in GdaƄsk, Poland in 2001. In 2025 I finished my MA in painting at Academy of Fine Arts in GdaƄsk in prof. Maciej ƚwieszewski's studio.

The not so hidden, colorful world right under my nose - flowers always amazed me. Their anatomical structures, fragile, sometimes imperfect petals full of textures and saturated colors.

Making hybrids of different daylilies, irises quickly became my passion, collection of different, sometimes weird flowers grew and grew. I decided to follow in Georgia O'Keeffe's footsteps and paint them on monumental canvases.

I started with painting realistic portraits of single flowers, then got closer and closer to the models, distorting proportions, changing hues a bit to better fit chosen color scheme, which resulted in almost abstract compositions. In my newest paintings I started experimenting with multiplication of composed fragments, fusing them almost symmetrically.

My drawings are also based on floral closeups, but a flower stripped of its colors displays other possibilities- it gives me a chance to go further with the details without it being too chaotic. Works often end up resembling some abstract landscapes filled with texture, folds and protrusions.

When looking at the petals my eye always searches for the most visually stimulating, interesting fragments, that can somehow sum up or describe entire flower. The closer I look into the petals, the more I want to show.

Selected individual exhibitions

  • Czekając, Galeria Ć»ak | Klub Ć»ak, GdaƄsk, 2026
  • ESENCJE, Karrot, Warsaw, 2025
  • W powiększeniu, toMy Kawiarnia GdaƄsk, GdaƄsk, 2024
  • INFLO, Karrot, Warsaw, 2024

Selected group exhibitions

  • DYPLOMY, Podziemie, Grudziądz, 2025
  • Art'em All 5, Plenum, GdaƄsk, 2025
  • ÚwieĆŒa Krew, Olivia Star, GdaƄsk, 2025
  • Prolog 3, Uniwersytet GdaƄski, GdaƄsk, 2024
  • Nieuchwytni, Pinakoteka Design, GdaƄsk, 2023
Jan Kalman

Contact

If you are interested in my works, feel free to contact me.

Email: mal.jankalman@gmail.com

Phone: +48 695 756 990