Marta Spendowska is Polish, US-based illustrator, licensed surface pattern designer and web designer working in US under her name (illustration ) and PolishLab (web design).
Self-taught artist she comes from a creative family, but never imagined to live as a proffesional artist full time. So she dropped this dream in her teens.
After attending few universities, studying Journalism and eventually graduating with Master in Management and Marketing (Poland) and working her dead-end job, she decided to leave her life behind and hop on plane to US. Having experienced America while completing an internship in Atlanta, Georgia her senior year at University, she knew it was the place to follow her dreams.
“I sold my first painting in Atlanta (GA), sitting on the pavement, across of the Whole Foods. That was the moment when I realized how possible it might be to pursue my life as an artist in US.”

She works in watercolor almost exclusively and truly believes that the nature of her style is based on this unexpected, fluid medium. She’s been interviewed online and offline, sells her prints on her website and works with commissioned portraits. Just recently she joined the amazing Directory of Illustration, she is a member of Wisconsin Visual Arts and exhibits her work in galleries.

Marta doesn't have a definition of beauty. She's mostly interested in the contrast, distortion, sadness, runny colors, mistakes in the drawing, personal tragedies, kitsch and obscure pink.
Her work is sometimes uplifting, sometimes melancholic, other times abstract, but always engages emotionally. So she hopes.
Currently she's working on a triptych of lost geniuses of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Those are going to be 22 X 30 in paintings in very transparent watercolor exhibited in the local gallery from January to March.