Ewa Gargulinska (born 27 August 1941 in Kraków, Poland) is a Polish painter. She is known for her Romantic Expressionist work. Gargulinska was a visiting lecturer at The School of Visual Arts in New York, US, from 1982 to 1983 and Central Saint Martins, London, England, from 1984 to 2011. Gargulinska currently lives and works in London, England. Life Gargulinska was born into a family of old Polish nobility from Lwów and Kraków. During the Second World War her family's estate was confiscated by the Russians when they invaded Lwów. Subsequently, Gargulinska's paternal grandmother was taken to a camp in Siberia where she was later liberated by General Sikorski's army and took part in its exodus through the Middle East. Gargulinska, her mother and maternal grandmother were taken to Pawiak concentration camp during the Warsaw uprising and escaped before it was destroyed by the Nazi's. After the war Gargulinska and her family moved to Sopot, a sea side resort where there were more work opportunities for her father. Gargulinska attended primary school there until her parents divorced and the family moved back to her grandmother's apartment in Kraków. The numerous relocations the family had to endure interfered with Gargulinska's education causing her to have a sense of displacement, however, it encouraged the development of her artistic talent. After a three-month stay in Paris at the age of seventeen, Gargulinska decided to change her initial plan to study French Philology, and entered the Academy of Fine Art in Kraków. After a year studying in Kraków she moved to the Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw, the leading art school in Poland, providing new teaching methods from Bauhaus as well as the Russian avant garde movement. Gargulinska's studies included tuition under Professor Henryk Tomaszewski (the most influential poster designer of his day). Poster Design became a new futuristic art form, considered at the time to surpass traditional fine art for its imaginative expression. Gargulinska received her MA degree from the Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw 1960-1966. Her work from this period was taken into the Academy of Fine Arts Archive and exhibited at The Young Talents exhibition at Foksal Gallery in Warsaw. During the rise of the Polish Film School movement poster art reached its peak and was enthusiastically received in the west. Gargulinska's poster images were shown in a group exhibition at the ICA in London in 1971. In 1972