Born in Grodno, she remained there until the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1940 she was arrested and deported to Russia.
Two years later she joined the Polish Army in its march to the Middle East. In 1946 she moved to London where she studied under professor David Bomberg at the Borough Polytechnic in 1947-50.

She was on the Board of the National Society of Painters and Sculptors, and of the Association of International Arts. In 1980 she became Chairman of the Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain. She practices painting, graphic art, and designs stained glass windows (St. Bobola Church, London and Holy Trinity Church in Wolverhampton). Her work is in the National Museum in Warsaw, the Museum of Art in Lódz, the Archives of Emigration Artists in Torun Museum and many private collections in both Poland and the UK. She was featured in Who’s Who in Art, Who’s Who in Europe, Contemporary Polish Artists in Great Britain, and Art in Exile. From 1965 – 2007 she was a Director of the POSK Gallery in the Polish Social and Cultural Centre (POSK) in Hammersmith, London.

Stanisław Sławomir Blatton was born in Limanowa, Poland.

From 1993 to1969 he trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and graduated with an MA in Painting and Graphics.

In Poland his work featured in number of exhibitions including ‘The Festival of Polish Art’ and ‘Young Contemporaries’.

In 1970 he won a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture

and in the same year moved to London.

Between 1975 and 2004 Blatton taught etching at The Working Men’s College in London and was awarded the Duke of York Medal for services to Adult Education.

He also worked as a Conservation Officer in the Framing Department at The National Gallery in London for 13 years.

Blatton’s work is mainly figurative and he is best known for his expressive watercolours which use highlighted colour and deformed figures to capture emotions.

His solo exhibitions in London include the Art Centre Gallery, the Polish Cultural Institute and the Bloomsbury Theatre. 

blatton@btinternet.com

Andrzej Maria Borkowski, artist and art critic, senior lecturer at School of Art, Brighton University -  born in Warsaw,  educated at Warsaw University, Courtauld Institute of Art (MA) and London College of Printing. Founder member ofWarsaw based theatre “Akademia Ruchu“ . Since 1982 when he has arrived to England ( invited to join British theatre group “Hesitate & Demonstrate”) lives and works in London.  Founder member of “BigosGroup of Artists of Polish Origin” .

Works in various media creating screen prints, drawings, collages and reversed painting on glass as well as photographs documenting his “drawings in nature” - site-specific images created in nature and often playing with his own distorted shadow.

Anna Cendrowicz was born in Poland. After escaping martial law in 1981 she has been living in London ever since, working in CAD

architecture drawings also as a couture dressmaker & designer.

She was awarded a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art from The University of Hertfordshire in 2003.

Her first solo exhibition in POSK Gallery was televised in a TV Polonia broadcast.

A radio interview & article in Echo Dnia newspaper followed when her work was exhibited in her home town of Kielce.

Anna’s other passion is sailing and she is a long standing member

of the Polish Yacht Club in London.

Anna is an artist who experiments with different techniques which

characterise her work, drawing directly upon perception, thoughts

and memories. She produces paintings, photo etching, digital images and monotypes prints.

anacen@hotmail.com

Education: Academy of Fine Arts - ASP Warsaw, 1978. 
MA – Graphic Design studio of prof. Leszek Hołdanowicz. Lives in London.

Selected exhibitions:

2017 'Art Out of the Bloodlands. A Century of Polish Artists in Britain' Ben Uri Gallery and Museum  
2016 'Migrant's Dream' - POSK Gallery
2013 NOA - National Open Art exhibition, Somerset House Gallery
2013 Summerhall Gallery, Edinburgh 'Quality of Everyday Life'
2012  Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London, (illustrated catalogue page 56)
2012  ‘Little Experiment’ - POSK Gallery
2012  ‘Londoners’ POSK Gallery
2012  ‘Polish Posters’ - ARTeria, Nowy Czas, London
2011   VI International Biennale of Paintings, Poland, (Honorary Jury Award for ‘Svalbard - Climate change’)
2011-2012 ‘Flux, Flow, Flight - Art in Motion’ - Orleans House Gallery
2011  ‘Format VI Collective’- with ‘Page 6’ art group, Unit 24, Southwark, London
2010  ‘Four Corners of the World’ - The Rickshaw House Gallery- London
1999   ‘Masks & Memories’ - Test Gallery, Warsaw
1987    London WHITECHAPEL Open, London, curator Nicholas Serota. 
1986   HAMILTONS Gallery - ‘Time’ B&H Awards, London
1988   Ravensdale Group Show-Dean St. London
1987   De’Isle Gallery-Art Collection
1987 - 1986  ‘European Illustration’ in London, Cooper Hewitt Museum New York, Paris, Stockholm

Regular twice year group shows in POSK Gallery, London with APA

Work in private collections in US, Italy, France, Poland, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, (including Robert HISCOX Collection).

Illustration and design work:
Includes clients such as: Barclays Bank, British Telecom, Asda, CBS Records, IBM, London Transport Advertising, Pan Books, 
Radio Times, Rexel, Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, Creative Handbook, Tor Pettersen & Partners The London Experiment.

Teaching:  
Visiting lecturer in Bucks University College - 1st and 2nd year degree course, 2002-2004.
‘Ashton House’ school - art workshops, 2005 - 2006.

Director of POSK Gallery in London

Lived and worked in Iran, Egypt, Africa, Poland, and Hong Kong.

http://joanna-ciechanowska.com/

http://www.summerhall.tv/2013/artists-talk-quality-of-everyday-life-2/

My work involves both, manual and mechanical processes and I play with them alternatively.

I emphasize the importance of emotional expression and intuition. My keywords are: free association, instant decisions, and a stream of consciousness. Fragments of flowing emotions and thoughts are translated into a visual representation.

I unite my automatic drawings and paintings with photographs emphasizing both, the representational and non-representational quality. I explore my ideas into large-scale paintings.

My paintings consist of layers of paint applied on canvas with repeated glazes and decisions. My technique gives the illusion of transparency, depth and daydreaming.

I have been investigating psychodynamic theories. Icontinue investigating how art making processes unfold the unconscious mind.   

Elizabeta studied Painting, Sculpture, and Stage Design at the Academy of Fine Art in Krakow.

Shecreated stage designs for theatres, operas, and TV stations.

At the same time she paints  a great number of paintings, makes original sculptures and installations.

Elizabeta's works has been exhibited in galleries in France, Italy, Australia, Germany, Poland and Great Britain .

She also is the independent curator and runs  the Rickshaw House Gallery..

Her fascination with the objects leads in her work to artistic expressive synthesis.

She combines rich colours with intensive light in her abstract works.

Very often paintings and sculptures are created as one composition.

www.chojak-mysko.com

echojak @yahoo.com

I used to be a knitwear designer so it’s not surprising that the human figure, texture and colour have become my obsession.  I started with ceramics, but then I discovered glass as a medium! This amazing, alchemic medium illuminates the form from within, giving transparency, reflection and depth to a sculpture, an alternative universe of just light and shadows, yet still very solid.  I use a variety of techniques; fusing, casting in the kiln and sand casting in a hot glass studio.

With photography and computer graphics my colour palette has expanded, allowing for greater experimentation and freedom of form which cross-pollinates into my glass.

I have taken glass master classes with Colin Reid and Max Jacquard. My work can be seen in various mixed shows and galleries and can be commissioned.

www.teresachlapowski.co.uk

Krystyna was born in Gdansk, Poland. She studied at Gdansk University and graduated in 1976 with a Master’s Degree in Economics.  She settled in England in 1977. Mainly self taught, the only formal artistic training Krystyna has received is at the Department of Extra Mural Studies at Chelsea College of Art and Design, where she was a student of Life Painting and Drawing from 1985 till 1995. 

Krystyna first exhibited and sold her paintings in 1991 and since then has had a number of solo exhibitions and has taken part in many group shows. Her work is in private and corporate collections in Europe, America, Australia, China, Thailand and North Cyprus.

Nature is her inspiration and Krystyna paints the world in all its warmth and beauty, gifts from the Creator.  Her aim is to capture nature in its natural palette of colours and light using all her knowledge of painting techniques and of composition.

Krystyna’s paintings reflect her admiration for the Old Masters and wishes to remain faithful to their traditions.

www.krystyna-ds.wix.com/paintings

Born in Wilno. In 1940 his family was deported to Siberia,Russia, then evacuated to Isfahan, Persia. In 1944 he was invited to New Zealand with other Polish children. Studied art at Welington College N.Z. 1956-59 and came to London in the 1960s and has lived there ever since. Studied art in the studio of Professor Marian Bohusz-Szyszko (1962-64).

Also studied Chinese painting for a year. Studied photography and exhibited with the Kodak Camera Club in Holborn. Took part in group art exhibitions in New Zealand and England; two one man shows in the Polish Social and Cultural Centre POSK Gallery, London.

andrdawidowski@yahoo.co.uk

Mańka Dowling received her MA (Honours) in Painting and Graphics in 1967 from the Academy of Arts in Warsaw. In 1970 she moved to London.
Her rst exhibition was at the Woodstock Gallery (1972). She then created a series of 3D paintings exhibited at the New Talent Store (1980). Since then she has held many individual and group exhibitions in Monte Carlo, Sweden, Mexico, Syria, Russia and London.

Her most recent exhibitions have been at the Spiegelsalon (Berlin), the Mostra Gallery and Gallery - 1 at the Polish Olympic Centre (Warsaw).
In her latest paintings she portrays humour and irony and her works are always colourful and joyful.

A lm about her is on her website: www.mankadowling.com
email: mankadowling@btopenworld.com. 

Eventually arrived in the UK.
Completed art education at the Central School of Arts & Crafts, London.
Worked as a textile designer and teacher in London while continuing her painting. Has been painting full time since 1997, and uses watercolours, gouache, acrylic and oils, on paper and canvas. In printmaking, specialises in etching and lino-cutting. She has held ten individual exhibitions since 1998 and exhibits regularly in group shows. Wanda’s works are held in private and public collections in the UK and abroad.
Currently she is painting on the banks of the Thames and working towards another solo exhibition in London. 

MA Fine Arts, Academy of Art and Design, Lodz, Poland.
“I guess my inspiration mainly comes from the inner world. The images are born within and I try to work them out and see them manifested.

The transformation element is important to me.Transformation through creation is the essence of my work.

That’s why I have a tendency to experiment, using media such as paining, drawing and sometimes, installation.”

Yolanta Gawlik’s work is in private and corporate collections.
She is a member of the South London Women Artists group and APA. 

Born in Sopot Poland. Living in London and Sopot.
MA Academy of Fine Arts Gdansk/Poland.
MA Anthropology, Art and Politics, Goldsmiths University, UK.
She works in various media using her own techniques.
Eros and Thanatos , Beauty and Decay, Transgression underpin her theoretical concepts.
She has exhibited worldwide, with works in museums, private collections and in the hands of numerous art dealers.
Agata Spus-Hamilton does not exhibit in strictly commercial Galleries.

aga ashamilton.com

Born in 1976 in Przemyśl, Agnieszka Handzel-Kordaczka is a graduate of the Art College in Jarosław and the University of Silesia Art Institute, with a degree in painting and ceramics. She was one of the winners of the German Paderborn Volksbank Young European Artist award in 2001 and is a member of the Przemyśl Fine Arts Society and the Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain.

handzellos@wp.pl

Born in Kartuzy, North Poland. Her childhood was war and German camps. RAYA,
completely self-taught, started painting in 1970 after a visit to her childhood places in Poland. Since then she has shown her paintings all over Europe in over 30 solo exhibitions and numerous group shows. RAYA lives in Exeter, Devon.

“Art in itself is an expression of hope, the ultimate opposite to the deadly silence of despair. I see Art as a speci c way of life, with its very own language. This language develops throughout an artist’s life. It is personal, but still takes in uences from all sides, as does any language that isn’t formal, stale or dead.”

e-mail: rayaherzig@gmail.com websites: www.rayaherzig.co.uk

Born in Wroclaw, Poland, 1964.
Studied at the Philosophy Faculty of the Theological Institute in Wroclaw, Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, graduated in painting and sculpture in 1992. Painter, sculptor, photographer, stage designer.
www.maciej-ho man.com sylwiaho man@hotmail.com

Architect, Painter, Graphic Designer Graduated with M.A. at the University of Gdansk.
She has worked on various conservation and restoration projects in Poland.

Since 1970 she has lived in London and continued the practice of Architecture working on two important projects- Gatwick Airport and The National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham.

From 1985 she started to pursue her interest in painting.
She received a P.G. Diploma in Fine Art City & Guilds of London Art School and later obtained an M.A. in Printing Techniques. She has exhibited in numerous Group and Solo Exhibitions, also the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the National Print Exhibition.

Works in private and Public Collections: Imperial College – Dept. of Education, Parnass Gallery in Katowice, Art Council Gallery in Krakow.

Four Worlds, monotype, 70x53 cm. 

The themes of my sculptures are mainly based on human and animal shapes and emotions. They belong to the tradition of the narrative and gurative with a gradual transition towards abstraction of shape.

I seek to express the essence, the inner depth, of the subject matter using forms that are reduced to a minimum.
I studied at St. Martin’s School of Art and Hornsey College of Art in London, as well as attending the Academie Julian in Paris. Later I taught ceramics and sculpture to adults and art in schools in London.

I have exhibited solo in England, Poland and France. My work is in private collections in the U.K, Poland, Switzerland, France and the U.S.

marysiajaczynska@hotmail.com

Jolanta Jagiello is a welded metal sculptor and independent curator of public art exhibitions (www.artgoing- places.com) with an MA Arts Policy and Management from Birkbeck College. As an artist she has exhibited in solo shows at the Changing Room Gallery, Fovea Gallery, and in group shows at Nunhead Cemetery, Rickshaw House Gallery, Space Station Sixty- ve, Ragged School Museum, The Knapp Gallery, The Synergy Gallery, Morley College, John Lewis Watford. She has been the Award Winner in Sculpture at ‘Inspired by ...’ at the V&A in 2005, 2008, and 2010.

Jolanta has an Acme Artist Studio at High House Production Park in Pur eet.

J.Jagiello@uel.ac.uk

Architect, Town Planner, Photographer
Graduated with MA in Architecture at Warsaw Technical University with distinction.
Prize winner in several architectural, photographic and graphic design competitions. Architect of the Polish Archaeological Mission in Egypt, Sudan, Cyprus and Syria. From 1972 has lived in London. Photographic exhibitions in Poland, London, Coventry and Norfolk. Photographs published in various magazines in Great Britain, Poland and India. Author of several architectural projects in Great Britain, Holland, Qatar, Switzerland, France and Poland.
Partner in the Architectural Practice with Maryla Podarewska –Jakubowski and Peter Ledward.
“I hope that my pictures show that the Architecture is The Art of the Rural and Urban Landscape”.

e-mail mmjakubowski@aol.com

I graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław at the faculty of Painting and Sculpture. I studied at the atelier of professor Józef Hałas and Prof. Leszek Mickoś as well as lithography at the atelier of Professor Paweł Frąckiewicz and mezzotint at the atelier of Professor Chris Nowicki and obtained MA in 2002. In the early stage of my artistic development, I came close to abstractionism. However, today I am focused on gurative painting and another passion is graphic art, especially mezzotint. My work can be divided into two main trends: pictures of children and fantasy images. The main theme of my work is mystery created in a world of sleepy fairytales resulting in a unique atmosphere. Currently, my mind is focused on ceramic work, which is maintained in the same, unique atmosphere of fantasy tales, as seen in the rest of my work.

www.krystynajaszke.com krystynajaszke@tloczniapomyslow.pl

Maciej Jedrzejewski was born in 1993 in a small quiet town called Chelmza, located North West of Poland. He graduated with a degree in BA (Hons) Graphic and Digital Design at The University of Greenwich in 2015. The artist’s earliest memory of drawing is when in the middle of the night, unable to sleep and too scared to wake his parents up, he decided to draw on his bedroom wall.

His mother used to take him to their local cathedral which made a huge impression on the young boy. Instead of listening to the bible readings, he was more fascinated by the paintings inside and the stories they told. He moved to England with his family in 2005, when he was just 11 years old. The family lived in the heart of Peckham which was the first point of contact for the artist with African culture and Hip-Hop culture. This combination of spirituality and rebelliousness is an endless source of inspiration for the artist.  

As he continues to walk on the path of life, he uses his art as a diary for a later contemplation upon the events within his life. This results in work that finds its roots in Surrealism and Abstraction. The works are created in a semi-automated fashion. A huge part of what is spilled out onto the canvas, depends on where his sub-conscious will lead him. Therefore, the work is discovered during the process of its creation. He argues that there is a new movement emerging that could be classified as ‘Neo-Surrealism’. Within his work, the interest not only lies on the exploration of individual’s sub-conscious, but also on the use of light and colour in order to achieve mystical, spiritual and surreal sensations.

The artist has experience in working with SEN children which influences him further. Greatly inspired by Buddhism and lucid dreams the artist hopes to achieve the sense of escape and arrival. The fuel for his passion is the belief that art (especially painting) can once again awaken divine emotions within an individual. In 2017 Maciej has joined APA (The Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain Est.1955) He is an active member of the association. 

www.maciejarts.uk

“Fascination with colour and form coupled with the search for the understanding through art lie at the heart of my work. I rely on both traditional and modern media, focusing in particular on oil painting, drawing and digital art techniques.”

Maria’s work includes painting, drawing, pastels, traditional printmaking, computer graphics and installation. She is also involved in desktop publishing.
Her work has been exhibited all over Europe as well as Russia and Latin America, and has received several awards.

Maria holds a Masters Degree in Fine Art from The Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland, Department of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture, and has since also studied Exposition and Display at The Poznan National College of Arts.

www.mariakaleta.com mariakaleta@gmail.com

Krystyna Kaplan (Nosarzewska) has been living in the UK since 1976. She has worked on over 60 documentaries for BBC, ITV and Channel 4 as a lm editor and producer/director, winning awards for several of her lms. She took courses on batik in London and was taught by well-known artists, such as Noel Dyrenforth and Jill Denton. She has written ve books, including ‘Batik on Paper’, the only publication on the subject. Krystyna’s works (batiks on paper, cotton, silk and wool collages) have been exhibited in London, Prague and Poland. Maria Wrońska-Friend wrote in her publication ‘Sztuka Woskiem Pisana’ that, ‘Kaplan (in her batiks on paper) combines technique of the proper batik with bleaching, collage and painting’.

jan.k@virgin.net

Lydia Karpińska obtained her B.A. at the Central St. Martins M.R.B.S.
Member of The Royal British Society of Sculptors.
Lydia works mainly in the gurative tradition in a variety of sizes and approaches in bronze and bronze-resin. She also carries out various life size portrait commissions.

www.rbs.org.uk lkarpinska@hotmail.com

‘I get my inspiration from the surrounding world, from my vivid dreams and my eventful life. Every day abounds with new impressions and incentives.’

‘The main technique of my artwork is etching, I sometimes practise dry-point. I never make drafts for my prints, when I put the rst dot on a plate I know what the nal work will look like. Usually I make one etching, I sometimes make more to obtain special e ects.

For printing I use high density or handmade paper. I mostly use printing ink in one colour.’

kirkiloart@hotmail.com

Born in 1974.
Pawel started his artistic journey at the Art College in Jaroslaw which was followed by a degree in painting from the University of Silesia Art Institute in Katowice, and a year of lectureship in the Fine Arts Department there. He is a liated to the Przemyśl Fine Arts Society in Poland and the Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain. He is currently living and working in London. He was among the winners of the 2001 German Paderborn Volksbank Young European Artist award. In 2008 he received an award from the Polish weekly New Time.

krusito@wp.pl

Graduated from European Academy of Art (Europejska Akademia Sztuk; EAS) in Warsaw. In 1998, supervised by professor Andrzej Sadowski, obtained a degree in painting; annexe in interior design, supervised by professor Julian Pałka and professor Wojciech Plewako.

Born in 1951 in Białystok. Studied art in Supraśl. In 1980 worked in an art studio in Wroclaw and Klodsk. His latest exhibition was at the Polytechnic Gallery in Lódź. He also took part in a Selected Group Exhibition at AdiArt Gallery (Lodz), an International Painting Exhibition in Narweka Gallery in Poland and APA Exhibitions in London.
His work is in the private collections of Mr Toby Jessel MP and Mr James Alabaster in London. In Poland Prof (Med) Anatol Panasiuk (Bialystok) has a large collection of his works and Prof Markowski of Lodz also collects his paintings. He paints in oil and loves the landscape of the Podlasie region which is re ected in his realistic paintings.

dariusz.1956@wp.pl

Born in Warsaw Poland, she has lived in London since 1980.
She graduated with a Masters Degree in Architecture from Warsaw Technical University.

Mainly works in watercolour but also paints in acrylics,pastels and oils.
Lana is a member of the APA as well as other art groups and has exhibited as a solo artist and in many group shows.

She mainly takes commissions for portraits. Her ‘Tibetan Lamas’ hang in various Buddhist Centres and Temples in France, including a large portrait of the Karmapa. Her portrait has appeared on the front cover of a meditation manual.

Her work is in private collections in the UK, Poland, France, Australia, Hong Kong, Germany, Luxemburg and Canada as well as in the collection of the late Diana Princess of Wales.

lanakrup@hotmail.com

Painter, poet and writer.
She has written a book of poems illustrated with her paintings: Szczęśliwe Oczy ‘’(Blissful eyes), Norbertinum, Lublin, 2012. She has been a member of the APA since 1987, and active as a secretary there for many years.
Solo exhibitions in POSK Gallery: 1993, 1995 and 2005.
Group exhibitions:
St. Martin`s Gallery, London, 1989
Centaur Gallery, London, 1990
The Quaker Gallery, London, 2002
Dom Wspolnota Polska, Krakow, 1992
Rickshaw House Gallery, London, 2009 & 2014.
Member of the Ealing Art Group and the Association of Polish Writers Abroad. Her watercolour abstracts originate from ‘art informel’
and ‘tachism’ with controlled spontaneity.

ela@lewan.plus.com

Gosia is a Polish artist based in London. She is a Street Art lover and self confessed Portobello addict (seeking help).
She works in: painting, collage, photography, poster design and lithography.

In her work are visible influences of 'The Polish School of Posters' and Japanese aesthetics. 

Gosia uses terse language and a monochrome palette, to seamlessly blend ideas within a dimension of stark simplicity and suggested form.

The artist believes in fewer strokes, to achieve clarity and space to invite her audience to use their own imaginations. 

In her works she explores the relationships between people and art in public spaces, the idea of an urban loneliness and the isolation one can experience when lost in a crowd. 

The artist avidly watches people, observing lives that inevitably inspire her, as she transposes them and her personal experiences into the hinterlands of her imagination. 

Born in Poland, Malski studied at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. (Post graduate studies: Wroclaw University and School of Film in Lodz).
His initial creativity gained much inspiration from his close contact with the artistic world of Krakow. First exhibition: Galeria Krzysztofory, one man exhibition : Galeria ZPAF, Warsaw.

Moved to London in 1971 and gained more experience in commercial photography and inspiration from the diverse society of the capital. For the international press, Malski covered such signi cant events as London Fashion Week, visits of Polish presidents to the Queen and was house photographer for the Miss World Competition.

His favourite technique is montage, and the philosophy of developing Conceptualism is his driving force.

Tel: 020 7737 1161 M: 07958 35 02 42 christophermalski@btinternet.com

I studied Fine Art at The Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland and graduated under the instruction of Professor Jerzy Zablocki in 1987.
I have contributed greatly to the artistic community, taking part in many exhibitions. My paintings have been sold in Poland, Germany, France, England and Italy.

alicja@abmart.co.uk www.abmart.co.uk +44 7507 261 289

Painter and graphic artist born in Kraków and educated in London.
She has been practicing art since 1970s. In her screen prints, collagraphs and etchings she works on the border between abstract art and representation, exploring textures and organic forms inspired by natural shapes and landscapes.

halina.nekandatrepka@gmail.com

Born in Poland in 1981, has been living and working in London since 2006. Obtained his photographic diploma at RACC in Richmond upon Thames in 2011, however, he is mainly a self-taught photographer, continuously experimenting and discovering new ways of expression.
He is attracted to non-obviousness, light and shadow play, movement, reflection, geometry and extreme minimalism.

Member of Free Painters and Sculptors collective (founded in 1952 in London), Association of Polish Art Photographers (ZPAF, founded in 1947 in Warsaw) and Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain (APA UK, founded in 1957 in London).

Has exhibited in many galleries and art fairs in London, Kent, Brighton, Brussels, Barcelona, France and Poland (including two solo shows) where he has achieved recognition and significant sales.

Marek’s photographs can be found in private collections in the UK, Europe and USA.
His work has been featured and bought by some of the world’s leading architects and interior designers, including Candy & Candy and a high profile commission for Qatari Headquarters in London’s Mayfair.

Awarded with prizes and distinctions in competitions organised by Royal Society of Chartered Surveyors (Infrastructure Photographer Of The Year), Construction Industry Council, Compas Oxford University, National Open Art and American Society of Civil Engineers.

Represented by several art galleries including West End House and Wychwood Art.

www.emczek.com

Andrzej Pacak graduated from the Veterinary Department of the Technical and Agricultural Academy in Warsaw. Since 1970 he was tutored bya well known sculptor Miroslawa Miller at her Warsaw atelier.

He was rst her student and then theyworked together for many years. In 1991 he moved to London, UK, where he established himself on the local art market.

From 2011 he founded his own art gallery in London. His artistic career spans over forty years and during that period he has participated in international exhibitions in Poland, UK, Germany, Lithuania, Austria, Switzerland, and France. His works are regularly exhibited by the Goldsmiths Museum in Kazimierz, the City of Malbork Museum, the Sandomierz Provincial Museum and by many private galleries in Poland and abroad.

Individual exhibitions:
1988 - Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw Poland, 1992 - Marszalek Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 1994-1996 - Polish Cultural Institute, London.

ampacak@gmail.com

Born in Poland and brought up under the German occupation. At the age of fteen he was already an active member of the underground resistance. Captured by the new enemy, the Russians, he was saved by a rescue operation mounted by partisan friends.

Sergiusz was transferred by a clandestine organization to the free West, and settled in England.
He studied paintings at St. Martin’s School of Art.

Over many years Sergiusz has developed his own, very unique style, always using clas sical forms and proportions, and based on division of backgrounds by projection of lines derived from subjects drawn.

The combination of imaginative colouring with a prismatic assemblage produces highly original, dynamic and decorative e ects. Sergiusz has named this the ‘PrismaticStyle’. 

Water is a favourite motif of the artist, most of the paintings are unpeopled, most possess a mystic, magical quality. Most are vividly suggestive of underlying deep spirituality. Essential to Andrzej’s ‘waterscapes’ is the exploration of the various qualities of water, serenity, power, change and impermanence. He explores the violence and the calm and we can experience moments of pure beauty and awe as he takes us on this journey of metaphysical dimensions. The paintings are alluring in their ethereal quality and both irresistible and compelling. Focusing completely on the subject the artist breaks free and express himself all the more eloquently.

Andrzej has also explored the medium of photography, capturing the beauty or the magic of the moment.

andrewpass@hotmail.com

Agata Peksa was born in Krakow, Poland. In 1987-1992 she studied at the Institute of Art Education at the Higher School of Pedagogy in Krakow and received her MA at the Faculty of Painting under Professor Irena Popiolek in 1992.

Agata is based in London where she studied computer graphics & design. She mainly works in acrylics. Her canvases re ect a process of thought - through human gures she is telling a story about herself, about others, about life.

In 2001 she joined The Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain (APA) and regularly shows her paintings at APA’s annual exhibitions in the POSK Gallery in London.

telephone 07540 833544

agapeksa@yahoo.com

Born in picturesque Nowy Sacz, (Poland), Sylwia Płecha graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples with an MA in Conservation of Antique, Modern and Contemporary Paintings, spending the nal year of her MA in the Polytechnic of Valencia.

She has exhibited her work in galleries in Italy and Spain since 2011, and has now moved to London to pursue her varied interests and professional career.
Inspired by the likes of Jannis Kounellis, Mark Rothko and Giovanni Anselmo, Sylwia has developed a personal and unique approach to her work. Her form and colour are clearly in uenced by Morandi - often dominated by one colour.

silvia.plart@gmail.com

Architect, Interior and Industrial Designer, Painter, Digital Image Artist. Maryla has a long standing career in creative industries.
She has an MA in Architecture. Her projects were designed for Poland, England, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland.
Prize winner in several architectural, art and graphic design competitions. She exhibits her pastels and digital images extensively in England and Poland.
Her works are in various private collections.
‘In my paintings and computer images the colour becomes absorbed by shapes and the shapes become dissolved in colour. In that way my work turns into expressive, moody and sometimes, disturbing images.’
Partner in Architectural Practice with Marek Jakubowski and Peter Ledward.

mmjakubowski@aol.com

Pauline Rafal, a graduate of BA (Hons) Book Arts and Design at London College of Communication,  develops pen and ink drawings, linocuts, and polymer prints displayed either as individual artworks, or as artist’s books. Her works are inspired by poetry and music, as well as themes based around memories and the experience of change.

Pauline also undertakes commissions for bespoke design, and in this field has developed jewellery displays for London Fashion Week and the Goldsmiths’ Fair (commissioned by fine art jeweller Ornella Iannuzzi), a one-off book commissioned by the Concordia Foundation as a gift to the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and a unique, one-off CD display box commissioned by pianist Annie Yim as a gift to the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, among other projects.

Exhibitions:

14 May - 1 June 2017: APA Spring Exhibition, POSK Gallery, Hammersmith, London

1 - 9 April 2017: Friends of Holland Park Summer Exhibition, Kensington, London

13 January - 11 February 2017: International Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

24 November 2016: Charitable Auction Exhibition, Hearth Club, South Kensington, London

15 - 27 October 2016: APA Autumn Exhibition, POSK Gallery, Hammersmith, London

25 June - 2 July 2016: Lyndons Arts Trust Summer Exhibition, Paddington Children's Library, Queensway, London

15 - 24 April 2016: Friends of Holland Park Summer Exhibition, Kensington, London

6 November 2015: "The Legends of Robert Schumann" - A Piano Recital and Book Art 

Installation, Burgh House and Hampstead Museum, Hampstead, London

3 October - 5 December 2015: "From the Pages of a Book", Riverside Gallery, Richmond, London

4 July 2015: "Hang with Us", Norlington Road, Leyton, London 

18 May 2015: Lyndons Arts Trust Summer Exhibition, The Lighthouse, Ladbroke Grove, London

17 - 26 April 2015: Friends of Holland Park Summer Exhibition, Kensington, London

29 November 2014 - 14 February 2015: "Artists' Books", Riverside Gallery, Richmond, London

I am a painter, an installation artist and an illustra- tor. I enjoy exploiting the symbolical and narrative properties of materials and objects in my 2D and 3D work. ‘The Three Dresses’ installation is inspired by ‘The Three Little Pigs’ cautionary tale

while the recent series of ‘Tree Madonnas’ by medieval paintings of the Virgin Mary, fertility gures, symbols of plants, women as ‘enclosed gardens’, church oor plans, domestic objects and Feministic Art.

They are poetic and gaudy, witty and over-embel- lished. They are a contemplation and a celebration of the rites of passage as told by European mythology.

www.dagmararudkin.com drudkin@studygroup.com

Olga Sienko vel Sienko-Tutton born in Warsaw, graduated from The Academy of Fine Art there in 1980. Started to exhibit prints and drawings in 1979 in Europe and continued studies at The Slade, The Central and The Royal College of Art in London. In 1993 established and cu- rates Studio Sienko Gallery in Lant Street, London. Ran life drawing for artists and pleners in Europe. Working in several medias. Works in collection in V&A Museum,National Library of Poland, Faber-Castell Collection, Fort Pascuale Collection, and several private collections. Convinced that art has to be seen in person at the gallery, not on the website.

olga@waterloowine.co.uk

Elżbieta Smoleńska (MA degree in Polish Literature, Warsaw University) worked for many years for BBC World Service. After leaving radiojournalism she devoted her time to photography and screenprinting. 

https://www.polskieradio.pl/24/290/Artykul/276358,Etiopczycy-w-Fabryce-Koronek

She participated in several group exhibitions - in Gallery 286, Studio Ex-Purgamento, Putney Arts Theatre, Bargehouse (Oxo Tower) and POSK Gallery. She won several prizes at the Summer Exhibitions in Putney School of Art and Design. One of her artworks was used as a cover for „Ars Inter Disciplinis”, a book devoted to dialog between art and music. 

For many years Elżbieta Smoleńska has participated in Wandsworth Artists Open House showing her photography, screen prints and unique jewellery. In 2017 her home gallery was voted the best and was visited by the highest number of viewers. 

https://www.radio.bialystok.pl/podrozepokulturze/index/id/167357

http://www.polishculture.org.uk/visual-arts/news/article/elzbieta-smolenska-photographs-and-ethnic-art-collection-from-nepal-laos-and-ethiopia-1867.html

In her artistic practice Elżbieta uses her own photography but also found images and objects, old family photographs, newspaper cuttings and all kind of  "paper detritus" as a base for her collage work or limited edition prints. She also draws her inspiration from her academic background in literature. Miron Białoszewski's concept of the re-imagined object is particularly appealing to her and serves as a "manifesto" for her collage work. 

Elżbieta Smoleńska’s installation “On the distaff side” shown during London Ultra exhibition organised by Free Painters and Sculptors in Bargehouse (Oxo Tower) in 2018 was awarded honorable mention.

The installation consisted of over 40 old weaving shuttles, old threads and photographs and symbolised the family tree. 

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Also in 2018 another of her installations, “Independent”, won 3rd prize in the competition celebrating 100 years anniversary of the Polish independence.

The jury of the competition consisted of, among others, graphic designer Andrzej Klimowski and curator of Ben Uri gallery, Rachel Dickson. 

art@smolenska.com

http://smolenska.com/

Exhibited in various locations in England, Scotland and Poland. Seven ‘one man’ and over 60 group exhibitions and curatorial work. Journalist (since 2009) contributing art criticism and essays to ‘Nowy Czas’ monthly.

Personal Statement: “My art is rmly anchored in the new art of today pursuing innovative means of expression. The interplay of colour and form has a dominant role. The content is peripheral. I am working in a two and three dimensional format, exploring di erent ways of unifying painting and sculpture in which a dialogue between broadly based culture and a personal re ection on the times we live in remains as a never-ending confrontation with my very own ‘self’.”

was.artworks@gmail.com Tel. +44 (0) 7982 714 969. www.w-a-s.org.uk

Stefan Stachowicz is an artist exploring the colours and textures of pigment to probe and express the deeper levels of human consciousness, the wonders of the cosmos and metaphysics. His works, through colour intensities and vibrations, express spatial depth, as if creating a world of their own.
Stefan came to London after World War II as a young man to join his father. He studied art under prof. Marian Bohusz-Szyszko at the Polish University in London.
He received his Art diploma in 1964 and joined APA. A year later he joined the International Association of Arts at UNESCO in Paris.
From 1988, he spent eleven years in California. Now he lives in London, painting and writing poetry.
He exhibited in various West End galleries. His work is in numerous collections overseas. 

For 30 years I have been taking photographs, and with a background as a research scientist I bring an inquisitive approach to my art.
In 2004 (Trees at Llyn Idwal), and 2005 (Grandma’s Birches), were exhibited at the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy in London.

Author of exhibitions entitled ‘The mysticism of nature’, ‘Art at Work’, ‘The mysticism of places without people’, ‘Signs of Ethiopia’,‘The Tree’, and ‘Travels with Infra-Red’. Author and co-author of multimedia displays entitled ‘You are’, ‘Blue’ and ‘Form’. Author of the photographic art book - “AGCT”( viral) defence (launch), published August 2012.

I have taken part in many group exhibitions of the Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain.
More works can be viewed at www.rsimages.smugmug.com rsimages@tiscali.co.uk

Henryk studied Three Dimensional Design at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. After moving to London he worked for Harvey Nichols display dept., designing and producing some of their famous window displays. During his time there he was introduced to the field of decorative painting, and has worked as a decorative artist and prop maker since, specialising in ‘faux marbling’ including contributing to a number of books on the subject.

In recent years, using some of the skills and processes from these fields, he has directed his talents to ‘fine art’. His work quickly evolved from painted expressionistic compositions to 3D sculptures and installations, most recently experimenting with crumpled paper and light.

He chooses techniques which enable him to achieve ‘random’ effects in colour and form, which when coupled with superimposed boundaries, create a certain tension. By means of this tension between randomness and control he seeks to create and evoke emotional impact.

Henryk works intuitively and spontaneously, with passion and wit, deliberately leaving his works untitled so as not to interfere with the visual expression and perception of his art.

Solo Exhibitions

1979 - ‘Sculpture from Architecture’ at Avoncroft Museum of        Buildings, Bromsgrove.

1994 - ‘The Art of Decorative Painting’ at Café Rico, London W11

2012 - Paintings, at the Windmill Hotel, London NW2

2014 – Painting, at BAR gallery, London NW2

henrykterp@gmail.com

http://henryk.crevado.com/

I was born in Poland and studied at St.Martins and Chelsea Art Schools and the London College of Printing.
I have had many solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions in Great Britain, Poland, USA and France.

As a painter I have always been interested in landscapes, and since moving to live in the French countryside my work has become more abstract with a deeper interpretation of colour, light and mass.

I use exuberant colours and textures to infuse my paintings with life, always attempting to express the true spirit of a place.

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Pawel Wasek (b.1973) is a Polish artist who has been living in London since 2001. He studied fabric & fashion design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, graduating with merit in 2000 in fashion design and painting.

Pawel Wasek divides his time and his passion between painting, drawing and recycling randomly found material, giving it a new meaning. He especially likes putting old, rejected objects into a fresh context.

He is a co-creator of The Montage, Forest Hill, London.
pawel@wasek.orangehome.co.uk

Damian Wójcik

Natalia Zagórska-Thomas is an artist and a textile conservator who makes mixed media work out of everyday, discarded objects.
“Because I always start with an existing object I don’t really feel like an author of the nal piece, more a pair of hands which help to bring about its emancipation from daily servitude. I like the tension between this organic, intuitive process and my other life as an art conservator, which relies on hard, veri able fact, where the ideal result is to stop time and eliminate change. So I spend half my time treating objects as forensic evidence and the other trying to prove that they are wholly unreliable”.

info@zagorska-thomas.com