Sylwia Synak is a Polish contemporary artist, Creative Mentor, and founder of The Art of Presence.
Her work explores the relationship between light, atmosphere, and perception. Through layered textures, natural materials, and an intuitive creative process, she creates contemporary abstract compositions that invite stillness, reflection, and emotional connection.
Beyond her artistic practice, she develops creative experiences and educational programmes inspired by the philosophy of the School of Imagination (Schule der Fantasie) and Montessori education. Through her work, she encourages people of all ages to rediscover curiosity, presence, and creativity.

Creative Origins
Polish contemporary artist and Creative Mentor Sylwia Synak was born in Gdynia, Poland.
She attended the High School of Fine Arts in Gdynia before studying Sociology at the University of Gdańsk and Wrocław and Communication Design with a focus on Fine Art Painting at Munich University of Applied Sciences.
After several years working as a graphic designer, mural artist and interior designer, she has devoted herself entirely to her artistic practice since 2014.
Since 2016, she has also worked as a Creative Mentor, creating creative programmes and artistic experiences for children, young people and adults.
Inspired by the philosophy of the School of Imagination (Schule der Fantasie) and Montessori education, she sees creativity as a key to personal growth. Her programmes foster curiosity, perception, presence, self-confidence and the joy of discovery. At the heart of her work is the belief that creativity is an innate part of every human being and that personal growth emerges through direct experience.
From 2000 to 2025, she lived in Munich, spent 2025 in Nice, and has been based in Paris since 2026.
Here, she continues to develop her artistic practice while building The Art of Presence- an international platform that brings together contemporary art, creative education and personal development.
Sylwia Synak
Contemporary Artist · Creative Mentor · Founder of The Art of Presence
Represented by:
Karin Wimmer contemporary art, Munich, Germany
Sophisticated-Art Gallery, Munich, Germany
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Ina Dederer Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland & Monaco
Gallery Achtzig, Berlin, Germany
Singulart, Paris, France
Experts about Sylwia Synak:
1. Ralf Dellert Gallery Sophisticated Munich
“Overall, we are dealing with a still young, but already “complete” artist who has learned her craft in a professional, profound manner and has noticeably mastered it. So I wish you joy, fun and enjoyment of this art, which I believe is inspiring in many ways.”
The art historians agree: really good informal art can open us up, expand us, “unlock us.” It offers us possibilities that go far beyond the power of language.
Look at the cover picture “Angel Showing”, here you will find everything that informal art needs: depth, plasticity, openness, a successful play of colors and the associated aesthetic feeling, craftsmanship, painterly know-how, so that the eyes enjoying, wondering, wandering across the picture surface and triggering different associations in each of us.
Apparently similar in subject matter, “Breaking The Darkness” triggers completely different feelings in the viewer. The amazement remains. These works offer us what Tolstoy achieved with language and recommends to us again and again in his works: the momentary immersion into a relaxing self-forgetfulness, from which one expands, opens up, emerges with new courage.
Informel became known in the 1950s primarily through all-over painting. This refers to an extensive, non-objective painting without a main motif, which sometimes extends beyond the edge and partially continues on the frame. Sylwia Synak's works fall into this category
We all know: Although money and matter play an undeniably important role in some places in our lives, on the other hand, the most important needs that we carry within us are neither tangible nor for sale: friendship, happiness, (self-)confidence, love , being carried and held, confidence, sensuality, desire, longing, hope, humor. This list could be extended indefinitely. This is where the Informal comes in, and this is also where Ms. Synak cleverly focuses: This painting does not require any objects.
2. Contemporary Art Dr. Karin Wimmer Munich:
In her abstract compositions, Sylwia Synak creates a counterpoint to the stimulating present. In her works, the artist tries to reproduce the impressions and mental states of everyday life. Associations with wide horizons and the memory of the lightness of being are released. The materials used have a strong connection to nature and therefore evoke memories of surfaces from nature, such as the earth's surface or are reminiscent of different bodies of water.
Sylwia Synak presents works that invite you to pause. She works not only with colorful acrylic paints, but also with high-quality natural materials such as: gold pigments, gold leaf, marsh lime, marble powder, natural pigments, inks and different types of sand.
3. Art expert: Christina Hooge, Berlin:
The work of the Munich-based artist Sylwia Synak opens up an associative world that is formed into complex sensory experiences through the form of perception of seeing. The approach to her objects grows out of her Understanding of design. Sylwia Synak studied communication design and art in Munich. These movement spaces not only reveal creative levels, but also train the eye for details. The resulting charisma of a work is reflected in different facets of her work. These are special techniques that produce, among other things, acrylic pictures, limestone nature paintings and mixed media with different materials, such as gold objects. The artist finds her inspiration both in the dynamics of everyday life and in nature, which she transforms intuitively.
Sylwia Synak's artistic expression is released in abstraction. Her works create a fascinating effect in the viewer's eyes, which unfolds through differentiated surface structures. Atmospheric levels reveal subtleties layer by layer that make the work appear fragile and delicate. The use of color enables deeper, almost plastic dimensions, which elevate each individual work of art from its two-dimensionality.
The artist's acrylic paintings refer to her desire to give form to inner impulses through collage or sculpting. The canvas paintings are created using different colors, such as acrylic or ink, which claim autonomy with regard to the informal commission. Sylwia Synak supports this significance through the obvious and direct artistic intervention through cuts, spatula-wiping techniques and brush movements. As a result, the image space is organized very energetically. Even if the motif is non-representational, the artist creates depth, plasticity and rhythm using colors and emerging shapes.
Intuition and sensuality are Sylwia Synak's receptors that introduce her to new ideas for her work. Spontaneity and the ability to absorb and process everyday energies and inspiration from nature play a major role. The intuitive play with colors and shapes in her abstract art comes from her emotional intelligence and inexhaustible imagination. Using special production techniques, she processes her inner impulses into a method of image creation that brings her artistic vision closer to the viewer using associative moods and makes it tangible.