Lech Kowalczyk, Pacific Ocean. La Costa.

Color linocut, paper, 60 x 80 cm, ed. 5/30, signed l.d., framed work

Born in 1954, studied at the Graphic Arts Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Katowice. In 1978 received a diploma with honors under Prof. T. Grabowski (graphic design) and Prof. R. Nowotarski (drawing and painting). Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture in 1979. He paints, draws, does graphic design and publishing. He won many awards for his drawings, of which he was also honored in the 4-album publication "Contemporary Art Print of The World" published by the International Art Center Kyoto in 1989. He exhibited his works in Katowice,Wroclaw, Lisbon, Ljubljana, Rijeka, Cleveland, at the Biennale of Graphics in Biella (Italy), at the Lahti Poster Biennale 1984- 1990. Works in the collection of the Silesian Museum in Bytom, drawings purchased by the Swiss Embassy in former Yugoslavia, paintings in private galleries in Germany. Author of promotional exhibitions of "Days of Polish Science" in Moscow, Beijing, Sofia, Plovdiv, Poznan, Katowice, Leipzig and Dresden. Numerous journeys resulted in the creation of exhibitions : "The world around me", "At the ends of the world", "On the trail of caravans", "Cracks", "I am a tree - imaginary drawings".