Jacek Jarczewski (b. 1962), Structures of Blue, 2017

Own technique (haptic), 80 x 100 cm, signed on the back: 'JACEK JARCZEWSKI "STRUCTURES OF BLUE" tech. Own 80x100 | J. Jarczewski 2017'
Polish painter, creates original haptic painting. Graduate of PLSP in Wroclaw, and the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw at the Faculty of Painting Graphics and Sculpture (now ASP Wrocław). Graduated with honors in 1988 with a degree in Painting and Painting Design in Architecture and Urbanism in the studios of Prof. S.R. Kortyka, Prof. M. Zdanowicz. Currently associate professor and head of the Department of Architectural Painting and Multimedia at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. He runs the Studio of Painting and Drawing Techniques and Innovative Activities. He practices easel and wall painting and stained glass design. As a curator, he has organized 16 international and national collective art exhibitions, 14 scientific conferences and seminars, and dozens of individual exhibitions. He participated in 43 solo exhibitions and 105 group exhibitions. Paintings in private collections in : Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, USA, Poland. He has completed dozens of stained glass projects, including four stained glass windows at Jasna Gora in Czestochowa, St. Nicholas Cathedral in Kalisz, museum objects - the Mountain Spirit Center in a branch of the Karkonosze Museum in Szklarska Poreba. The first stained glass windows were created for the House of Culture in Rawicz and have decorated the auditorium since 1988. He is the author of publications: books and catalogs, date stamps, stamps and postcards. Since the beginning of his artistic work, the artist has been creating an original painting technique called haptic painting, which aims to activate the sense of touch in the full perception of a painting.