Dimensions: 65 x 73 cm (according to the frame)
signed and dated p.d.: 'JERKA89'
on the reverse, inscribed on the painter's loom: 'JACEK JERKA | 'TOWER OF BABEL III'"
Biography
In 1976 he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. He specialized in graphics. Since 1980 he devoted himself entirely to painting. Relying on a precise pictorial technique modeled on the old masters (Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch), but above all on his own boundless imagination, he creates surreal compositions, especially admired by lovers of fantasy in all varieties. He inspired, for example, fantasy author Harlon Ellison to write 30 short stories, which, along with Yerka's paintings, made up the publication titled. "Mind Fields." The same American publishing house "Morpheus Intenational" published the album "The Fantastic Art of Jacek Yerka". In 1995 the artist was awarded the prestigious World Fantasy Award.
