Basia Flores, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, is a lecturer at the Silesian Academy, an illustrator, painter, and a creative soul. Her art is a journey through colors, shapes, and emotions — a simple path to positivity.
She has illustrated for magazines such as Kukbuk, Wysokie Obcasy, Praca, Non/fiction, Magazyn Psychologiczny Charaktery, Fuss Magazyn, PNT Magazine, Newsweek Psychologia, Outdoor Magazyn, and Tagesspiegel. She has created illustrations for numerous books, including collaborations with Wytwórnia Publishing (the Kuku series and Primer of Polish Culture) and Debit Publishing (Sylwia Chutnik’s Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Stories of Extraordinary Polish Women). Her cover illustrations can be found on books by Anna Dziewit-Meller, published by Wydawnictwo Literackie (Darcie Pierza, Disko).
Her works have been exhibited in Inner Strength. Women of Poland and Japan in Tokyo and Krakow (Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology). Basia’s paintings have also been shown in Texas, São Paulo (Contínua exhibition at the Clube de Criação Festival, 2016), Manaus (Instituto Amazônia, 2016), London (London Illustration Fair, 2015), and at the Polish Poster Biennale in Katowice (2017). In 2022, she took part in a painting symposium in Noja, Spain, hosted by Espiral Gallery, which concluded with an exhibition.
Her artworks can also be found at art auctions alongside pieces by Pablo Picasso and Egon Schiele.
She currently lives and creates in Katowice, Poland.
Basia's work often speaks to feminine strength, cycles of transformation, and the search for inner light — offering poetic reflections on what it means to be human.
Her most recent solo exhibition, “BLISKO” (CLOSE), held in the Space at BWA Gallery Katowice from February 8 to March 9, 2025, was a poetic exploration of closeness—whether to oneself, to others, to nature, or to daily emotions. Through warm, dreamlike visuals and subtly exaggerated shapes, she invited viewers into a gentle, intimate realm, reminding us that what heals us is often much nearer than we realize.
photo: Marta Chrobak
— Basia Flores