MARINE GALLERY AT MAEM

MARINE GALLERYAT MAEM

Do you remember Mr. Andrew, who painted twelve beautiful pictures for us, from which we created the MAEM 2021 calendar? If not, please go back to the eighth edition of our M Magazine, where you will find an interview with the artist. Or maybe a MAEM calendar decorates your desk in your office or cabin? We gave out hundreds of calendars over the New Year period, sending them out to ships along with ordered parts and giving them to our friends as New Year's gifts.

A calendar, however attractive it may be, will lose its sparkle with the arrival of another year. Fortunately, paintings are timeless and can be easily saved from oblivion. These paintings will fit perfectly in our factory, giving some artistic magic to its industrial interiors. The opening of the gallery of Mr. Andrew's paintings is a perfect culmination of a stage in our cooperation. Let us take this opportunity to go back to its beginnings for a moment. In March 2020, when the world was shaken by a pandemic, we decided to reprioritize Christmas gifts. In the face of the difficult situation that affected us all, we allocated part of the previously reserved funds to help animal shelters. We also decided that we would focus on support and that the magic of helping would be the theme of Christmas gifts in 2020.

One of the elements of the gift was to be a calendar with seascapes of twelve countries, from which MAEM's major clients come from. We wanted the paintings to be created by someone special and that is how we found the

Foundation for the Art of the Disabled of which Mr. Andrew Flach is a member. To our surprise, it turned out that Mr. Andrew lives close to our company and specializes in marine paintings! Could we ask for anything more? After the first meeting we knew it was the beginning of a fruitful cooperation. We told Mr. Andrew about our idea for the calendar and after a while everything was set. The realization of the order was accompanied by consulting meetings in Mr. Andrew's magical garden. Meetings, during which Mr. Andrew shared with us stories and adventures from numerous sailing camps, in which he participated, and also told us about the postwar reality of Gdansk and Tricity.

The result of the cooperation with Mr. Andrew is also a rising star in the world of Cracow painters - Klaudia, a graphic designer at MAEM, who develops her painting talent alongside the master. Klaudia's first works look really promising.