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 Born in 1950 in Przemyśl. He studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts in the Katowice branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He obtained his degree in 1975, which he defended in the Department of Poster headed by Professor Tadeusz Grabowski and the Department of Books headed by Professor Stanisław Kluska. He has taught in his alma mater since 1977, currently holding the position of professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Katowice and heading the Department of Drawing.

He has organized 60 solo exhibitions of painting and drawing and participated in over 300 exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
Numerous awards, including two at the National Exhibition of Painting "Bielska Jesień" held in Galeria Bielska BWA (1979 - Medal, 1989 - Silver Medal); Second Prize at the exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints "Hope is in us" in Poznań (1985); First Prize at the Winter Salon in Radom (1987); Grand Prix for the Work of the Year '93, Gallery Art-Nova 2, Katowice (1994); the Award of the Radom District Museum at the Self-Portrait Triennale in Radom (2006), Medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis (2013)

Painting emerges from a compromise between memory and forgetfulness, i.e. reconciliation between what we bring out from a repository of imagination, memories and inspiration, and a forthright aesthetic surprise, epiphany, glimmer of truth. This informal consensus between what we have planned and what has suddenly surprised or seduced us, reflects a polemic between our own perseverance and the phenomenon of aesthetic experiences coupled with the diktat of the painting.

Quote from "Painting - Phenomenon of Compromises" by Janusz Karbowniczek.