Dark, sometimes gloomy streets, tired inhabitants and their everyday lives. In a word, the landscape of the Upper Silesian city of the mid-twentieth century. And all this is carved in stone, less often in wood or metal. This is what Joanna Konarzewska's early works looked like, which she made using the lithographic technique. Images made in this way look like photographic negatives. This is because the drawing is applied with a greasy crayon or ink on a hard surface - metal or stone. It can then be easily reflected by applying even plain wet paper to such a matrix.

Don't think, however, that Konarzewska created only black and white. Her works were also much happier, full of colors. This can be seen in slightly later works, when the artist took up oil painting. She painted beautiful landscapes, still lifes and, above all, portraits. One of the most characteristic is Lutek, a portrait of his son, created in the late 1950s. The painter used watercolor and pastel as well as oil. With their help, she expressed her fascination with sea and mountain landscapes.

She visited Europe and the United States where she became interested in interior design. She mixed different styles observed during her travels. In the interiors arranged by her, one could find echoes of the work of the Catalan surrealist Joan Miro, the American representative of kinetic art, Alexander Calder, the Swiss painter Paul Klee, or the painting of one of the creators of the canons of 20th-century art - Henri Matiss.

The history of the artist is also a relationship with her equally talented husband, Ludwik Konarzewski. The Konarzewski family is a well-known artistic family that still creates in Upper Silesia to this day. They have almost a hundred years of creative work behind them and the evolution of the technique, which went from colorism, through expressionism, to abstraction for the youngest.