Krzysztof Grajczak aka Grott (b. 1969), Untitled, 2013

oil, board 24 x 37 cm

From 1988-1993 studied at the Faculty of Arts of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, where in 1993 he received a diploma in painting in the studio of Prof. M. Herman.
Since 1998 he has been a member of the Association of Polish Artists. He cultivates painting and drawing. He also does stage design and designs theater costumes.
The artist cooperates with recognized galleries such as Gallery EL Elblag, Gallery BWA Olkusz Gallery Wirydarz Lublin, ZPAP galleries and others.
Founder of the GROTT art group. Co-founder and long-standing juror of the Provincial Art Competition for children and young people 7 Talent- at VII LO in Lublin.
Participated in more than 60 individual and collective exhibitions and artistic events in the country: among others- Lublin, Pulawy, Warsaw, Debica, Chorzow, Elblag, Gdansk, Olsztyn, Zamosc, Krakow, Olkusz, Koszalin, Osieki, Kazimierz Dolny, etc.
And also abroad: Sweden, France, Germany, Tunisia, Greece, Czech Republic, Latvia, Ukraine, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Georgia, etc.
The paintings are in private collections, museums and galleries at home and abroad.
2019-Honored with the Lublin Mayor's Medal for 25 years of artistic work
and the Award of the Marshal of the Lublin Province for outstanding achievements in the field of popularization of culture and art.
A few sentences from reviews and texts about me:

..." It is the color that determines the atmosphere and character of these works, which juxtaposed side by side, create-perhaps unintentionally-a kind of frieze, without beginning or end...."

...." In his art, the artist attempts to reduce the landscape - the one remembered from his childhood - the Zulawy landscape, to a universal, simplified scheme, in which the rule of dividing the plane of the canvas with horizontal spots of color recalls the individual plans of the real landscape...."

...." In the dynamically painted paintings, the search for form and the search for the lost colors of childhood play an important role. One of the constant elements of these landscapes is a rectangle, a sheet of glass, a window, with reflected fragments of trees, water floodplains......"

...." The landscape we see in his work is an image of human nature.
Grajczak's paintings are a love letter to a lover who has passed away.
Every line and stain in his paintings creates a story in which good opposes evil, beauty opposes mediocrity, etc...."

. . "I know how Christopher works. His painting is created and created - every day - from day to day. He changes "develops and curls", rejects what is unnecessary, changes the color applying another, but not to enrich. By changing it rejects the unnecessary - it leaves the idea - the synthesis of the landscape and you begin to agree with it, you accept it. Going into his studio many times, day after day, and looking at the so-called "creative process" I thought - he is right, that one was unnecessary. It's good that he changed that color, that he got rid of those elements.
The idea stays, the thought stays. It is clear and simple. What remains is the soul of the landscape, the mood, the feeling and sensitivity...."