Searching for my place in life, I took up many, highly differentiated occupations and generally, every time (maybe thanks to that variety) I found a lot of pleasure in them.
I used to have my own music group where I played the flute. I used to be an actor of an experimental student theater, I was the acoustician and the "home" scenographer of "NIEBO" group, where sometimes I also sang and played percussion instruments. As a cultural-educational instructor I used to train hostesses of village clubs. I organized the house at events and was involved in promotion of the Theater in Olsztyn (Poland). I used to paint and sell pictures in the streets of Paris. I used to be the program director at Radio WAMA, as well as write and record satirical "Recommendations for True Men" for Polish Radio. I also designed a number of posters, calendars and covers for records. I delivered scenography and managed the Castle Meetings "Let's Sing Poetry" in Olsztyn as well as the script, scenography and production of a performance based on paintings by Edvard Munch "The Dance of Life" (also for Polish Television).
Above all, however, I find my greatest pleasure in painting that I have been on "friendly terms" with for over 30 years. My "spécialité de la maison" is portrait painting offering the opportunity to penetrate the depths of character of my models and, since recently, also the landscape painted in pastels, the medium that is simply ideal for that purpose.
Paintings in my most recent cycle "Pastels from Green Valley", exhibited many times in numerous galleries in Europe, are really a form of documentation of the place where I have resided since recently, the beauty that I have pleasure to enjoy every day. Imbedded somehow within my landscape I could not resist painting it and suddenly it appeared that such painting represents expressing the simplest emotions - enchantment with observation of the nature, pure joy of creating. Why - paradoxically - we are looking for places that have not been spoiled by human activities; why they have such an intense and comforting influence on us? It is there where we can realize the important truth: we are a minute particle of the nature and there we can try to find "our own place in line". I am a member of: The Association of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP)
Polish Pastellists Association
Art du Pastel en France
Pastel Society Eastern Canada Most important exhibitions: 1977 - Club "NIEBO" - Olsztyn -solo
1977 - MiMDK - Olsztyn - group
1978 - II National Exhibition of Student's Art - Warszawa
1979 - Club MPiK "Ruch" - Olsztyn
1983 - WDK - Olsztyn - solo
1989 - WSP - Olsztyn -solo
2002 - Exhibition of Painting, Drawing, Grafik and Sculptor - Gdańsk'2002
2003 - Gallery "At Artists" - Olsztyn - "Pastels from The Green Valley" - solo
2003 - Galery "Obora" - Glotowo - group "Dziady Pruskie"
2003 - Gallery BWA - Olsztyn - "Olsztyn's moods" (650 anniversary of Olsztyn)
2003 - Nadlesnictwo Kudypy - solo (655 anniversary of Gronity)
2004 - Gallery BWA - Olsztyn - "Towards the forest" - solo
2004 - VII Spring International Salon of Pastels - Yvetot - France
2004 - post-outdoor exhibition, Debno - Gallery BWA, Gorzow Wlkp. - Poland
2004 - /July - November/ Saison Polonaise en France "Nova Polska"- Buzancais, Luant, Chateauroux, Deols, Poinconnet, Montierchaume - solo
2004 - II International Biennial Pastel - Nowy Sacz - Poland
2005 - Chelmiska Gate - Museum - Brodnica - Poland - solo
2005 - International Exhibition Salon of Pastel - Honfleur - France, Verbania - Italy
2005 - Gallery "Synagoga" SSK "Pojezierze" - Barczewo - Poland - solo
2005 - International Exhibition of Pastel Society Eastern Canada - Tudor Hall, Montreal, Canada
2005 - I-st Moscow International Exhibition of Pastel - Central Hause of Painters - Moscow - Russia
2005 - Regional Exhibition - "Let's love Warmia!" - Offenburg - Germany
2005 - Group exhibition "Warmińskie Baby i Dziady Pruskie" - Gallery El - Elblag - Poland
2005 - Single Picture Gallery - Museum in Olsztyn, Poland - solo
2005 - Gallery - The Old Town Hall - Olsztyn - Poland - solo "My Lyna-river - my...Crystina"
2006 - Museum in Grudziadz - Poland - solo "Pastels"
2006 - International Salon of Pastel - Giverny - France,
2006 - Regional Exhibition - "Let's love Warmia!" - Gelsenkirchen, Osnabruck (Germany), Chateauroux (France), Lidzbark Warminski (Poland)
2006 - Chateau du Mesnil Geoffroy - France
2006 - Theater in Olsztyn - "My pastels" - solo
2006 - Centrum of Christian Culture - Olsztyn - "Pilgrim of forest stream" - solo
2007 - El Gallery - Elblag - "Around landscape" - solo
2007 - Spring International Salon of Pastels - Yvetot - France
2007 - Exhibition in Sweden for Polish artists - Malmo - Sweden 2007 - Regional Exhibition - "Let's love Warmia!" - Perugia (Italy)
2007 - Annual Exhibition of Audubon Artists Society - Nowy York
2007 - Regional Exhibition "Warmia's Autumn " Museum Reszel (Poland)
2007 - V Art Biennial "President's medal" - Gallery BWA - Olsztyn (Poland)
2007 - RD Patrimoine Conseils & Associes - Evreux (France) Marek Swiatecki
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