Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1978, graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts as a Master of Fine Arts in March 2005 and was awarded a Ministry of Culture Scholarship. The recipient of numerous residencies at Cill Rialaig, Co Kerry in 05, her solo and group shows around the country are always very successful. "I am looking for human simplicity and complexity….trying to catch the casual feelings, naked and defenceless in their realism. My portraits are like multilayered cocoons, profoundly intimate, sexual or innocent….still glances, crucial in their expression are uncovered in layers of my paint" she says of her work. Gajewska exhibits in the Origin Gallery and her much sought after work is the focus of national media acclaim.