Grzegorz "Cheeba" Walus, "Portal II / Space Love."

100x80, oil on canvas, 2021

Born 1986 in Opole

Graduated from art studies in 2001.with a master's degree, as an alumnus of painting professors Alexander Dimitrovich and Nikola Naskov. In 2019, the artist settled in Bali, where he painted some of the paintings that make up the "WY$PY" and "Holy Water" series containing inspirations from Balinese religion and culture. Gregory Walus' paintings are a multicolored mosaic of symbols and layers. They often refer to the work of colorists, where color becomes more important than construction and determines the mood of the work. The religion of "holy water," considered the most colorful religion in the world, becomes a means of artistic expression and is contained in religious symbols appearing on canvases or mantras depicted in the increasingly rare Sanskrit.

The artist has exhibited his paintings at Supamolly and Waterhouse in Berlin in 2015, at Metis Gallery and Reservoart in Bali, at the 2017 Swab Barcelona Art Fair, Soho Gallery in Sydney and at Cosmoproof 2018 in Hong Kong, among others. His works are in many private collections both in Poland and around the world.