Two painters, one square
The artists behind the pictures
We commission every picture from painters who live within a tram ride of the Rynek. They are paid per picture, and again for every reprint.
Facades
Ewa Sobczak
Ewa trained as a restorer and spent nine years repainting the arcade ceilings on Staszica Street. Now she paints the fronts of houses instead, always from the pavement opposite, always dead centre.
A facade takes her a week. She mixes each pink from the wall itself, holding her brush against the plaster until the two disappear into each other.
Her puzzles on our shelf
- Pink Palace
- Pink Archway
- Mint Balconies
- Lilac Row
Flowers and windows
Marta Wróbel
Marta paints what grows on window ledges: geraniums, curtains, the odd cat. Her pictures are dense with small detail, which is why most of them end up as our 2000-piece boxes.
She works at a kitchen table above the old pharmacy and sends each panel to us by hand, wrapped in a tea towel.
Her puzzles on our shelf
- Geranium Windows
- Yellow Curtain
- Hotel with Grey Shutters
“The picture comes first. We only cut it when the painter is happy, and we never print a picture we would not hang at home.”
Józef Tarka · founder, Arkady Puzzle Company
On the shelf
See their pictures in pieces
Every puzzle names its painter on the box lid and on the poster inside.