"The drive for knowledge" (2020) Painting by Leszek Gaczkowski

      Leszek Gaczkowski  was born and live's in Silesia, Poland. He received a technical education even though from an early age he exhibited a strong interest in music and arts. He also plays guitars. However he gave up his passion to pursue a different path, and now he's returning to it. He believes that painting or any other form of art is an illustration of his ideas. It expresses his feelings, his natural abilities, and the effort often associated with the joy of creating. His artworks including paintings are owned not only by his natural abilities, for which he is hugely grateful but are also the effect of self-study self-improvement, and most of all hard work! His favorite techniques are pastels, oil paints, and watercolors, but he does not stray from charcoal, sepia, and sanguine as well. Pastels are very delicate tools perfect express elusive details such as facial expressions which have lately become one of his favorite pursuits. He focused on capturing feelings and emotions producing his own original style. Among his artworks, we can find both iconic, well-known faces of those known to everyone and those who belong to anonymous people he has met on his way and who have inspired him. Although he has devoted himself to the art of portraits he has never limited himself to this branch area. As a versatile artist, he was always looking for new challenges and inspirations. That let him discover his great passion to paint landscapes and made him very adept in hard and demanding but careful watercolor techniques. Within his own unique style, many of his artworks tie to those of great impressionists he creates his own, paintings but also reinterprets already existing paintings. He displays his artwork in the best-known art galleries which are associated with many artists in Poland. Some of his paintings are also on procurement. They are now decorated, in houses of private collectors in countries such as England, France, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Bahrain, and Poland. This passion for active paintings dates back to 2010. He is very open to suggestions and inspiration and shares his experiences with others willingly.  

• Nationality: POLAND
• Date of birth : 1953
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• Groups: Contemporary Polish Artists