You’ve been walking past that wall for a year

Not because you can’t afford to fill it. Because nothing you’ve found deserves it. Answer five questions about the room and I'll show you which of these works belongs there.

Orange Sunset on the Winter Flood Plain · Kichi Zibi, April 2023 · original sold, edition of 100

An empty wall isn’t

indecision. It’s a standard.

Most people I hear from have already bought the easy thing once. Something that matched the sofa, ordered from a big site. It went up, and within a month they stopped seeing it.

After that happens you get careful. And careful looks like a bare wall.

The trouble is that a standard is almost impossible to shop against online. You can’t judge scale from a thumbnail. You can’t tell how a surface will behave at four in the afternoon in a west-facing room. And at real money, guessing isn’t reasonable.

So the wall stays empty, the room stays unfinished, and the year you’re actually living through goes unmarked in the house you live it in.

What happens when you answer

Stop guessing on scale
The single most common reason expensive art looks wrong on a wall, and how to get it right in two minutes with a tape measure.

Read your own light
Why the same piece can glow in one room and go dead in the next, and how to tell which yours is before you buy.

Get an actual answer
Maciek reads your five answers and your wall photo and writes back himself. One or two pieces, and exactly why he thinks they’d live well with you.

See it there before you decide
Hold your phone up to the wall and the piece appears at true size, in your light. Most people know within thirty seconds.

Five questions about your room

About ninety seconds. The guide arrives right away. Maciek’s letter takes three or four days, because he writes each one himself.

1. Which room is this wall in?

2. Roughly how wide is the empty space? A pace is about three feet if you haven’t got a tape handy.

3. When is that room at its best? This decides more than any other answer.

4. What should the room feel like when you walk in?

5. How long has the wall been empty, and what have you ruled out? Knowing what’s wrong saves us both time.

6. What art work do you have to move or store?

Is anything changing in your life right now? Optional, and brief is fine.

A photo of the wall, if you have one handy. Not required, but it helps enormously

Click to upload

First Name *

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Maciek reads every one of these personally. If nothing in the collection suits your room, he’ll tell you that plainly. Unsubscribe any time.

Most landscape art is calm. That’s why you stop seeing it.

In April 2023 the flood plain of the Ottawa River — Kichi Zibi — sits a few minutes from Maciek’s house, and that spring it couldn’t decide what it was. One evening the meltwater held the whole sunset, orange right across the surface. The next morning it was blue and hard again, wind coming over the ice like winter had never been asked to leave.

What came out of it wasn’t winter and it wasn’t spring. It was the argument between them.

That matters for a room. A painting of something ending and starting at the same time stays interesting, because it hasn’t resolved. You keep looking at it. Pleasant becomes wallpaper in four weeks; unresolved holds for years.

Each work is an edition of 100 on semi-gloss metal, in three sizes, with a signed and numbered certificate posted separately. Several of the originals have already sold.

Who is reading your answers

Maciek “Magic” Peter Kozlowski, born in Warsaw in 1958, trained as an engineer, taught to see by his grandmother who showed him found faces in the cracks of an old pink bathtub. He has painted the Ottawa River flood plains for years because they are at the end of his road.

Artist of the Year in the U.K., 2017
Exhibited Ottawa, Toronto, and GAIA Gallery, Brooklyn

About Maciek

Magic Peter (Maciek Peter Kozlowski) is an acclaimed artist and art collector, celebrated for his ability to evoke joy through diverse artistic expressions.

A recipient of numerous international awards, including the U.K. Artist of the Year (2017), Magic's work spans various styles and subjects such as abstracts, florals, landscapes, and portraits. Continuously pushing boundaries, he crafts distinct collections of original pieces and limited edition prints that invite you to experience the delight of discovering your next cherished artwork.