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 Born in 1956 in Sosnowiec; studied at the Faculty of Print in Katowice (branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków); degree in graphic design under Professor Stanisław Kluska, minor in painting under Professor Jerzy Duda-Gracz (1982).

Lecturer at the Art Institute of the Cieszyn branch of the University of Silesia in Katowice since 1999 and Associate Professor since 2012. Grants from the Ministry of Culture and Art (1983 and 1988).

55 solo exhibitions (1986 - 2015); about 250 collective exhibitions and competitions in Poland and abroad; 21 awards and honourable mentions, including: "Bielska Jesień", Bielsko-Biała; Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin; Biennale of Small-Format Paintings, Toruń; "Work of the Year" competition, Katowice (repeatedly); "Music in Painting" competition, Tychy; Art Exhibition of Silesian Artists in Bielsko-Biała; "I am" - an Exhibition of Silesian Artists in Katowice.

The search for the unknown stems from emotion, experience and passion embedded in the painting craft. The process of painting becomes an act of releasing energy accumulated in the structure of the painting matter; a struggle for its own original shape which is born from the confrontation between dreams and impotence, between ideals and the physicality of objects, between spirit and matter. Here, the forces of dispersion wrestle with the forces of concentration; coincidence contends with necessity. This leads to a search for balance between the open and the secret, the tangible and the unsaid.

The things I particularly value in my painting experience are openness and experimentation which bring a fascinating outcome. This provides room for success and failure, experience, risk and knowledge. I'm fascinated by all experiments which result in enriching the surface of the painting, by any new ways of applying paint which put me in control of the painting matter.