User:Ryszard Pielesz/sandbox

Ryszard Pielesz was born in 1961 in Tarnowskie Góry. He lives in Bielsko-Biała. He is a graduate of the Graphics Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Graduated with honours in 1990. After graduation, he dealt with graphics (etching), his works were appreciated at graphic competitions, including the triennial in Krakow, Katowice, Lubin, and Lublin. The years 1991–1997 are the period of cooperation with the "Lisse Bruun" gallery in Copenhagen. At that time, he produced the series of paintings: “Ecological Letters”, “Objects” and “Remembered Landscapes”. In the years 1992–1997 he was a member of the International Art Salon in Tokyo. Since 1998, he has been working at the Institute of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Educational Sciences in Cieszyn, University of Silesia in Katowice. In 2005, he completed his habilitation thesis, the subject of which were a series of graphics entitled: "Trawers", "Przestrzenie" and “Light”. In the years 2000–2019, he dealt with digital graphics. He has now returned to painting. Creates pictures on paper. He worked out He uses his own painting technique of layering tempera paint and after drying, he reveals the applied layers with sharp tools, scratching them from the ground, which makes the painting more spacious. Ryszard Pielesz's painting can be classified as informal abstraction. Allusions to the motifs of mountain landscapes and rocks are visible in his works. The author is inspired by climbing the Alps and the Dolomites. Hiking in the mountains has been his passion since his early youth. Nature was and is a very important element in Pielesz's work. In the last two years, he has completed a series of paintings entitled Sanctuary of Nature, presented at the Polish Institute in Manchester. He has exhibited his works in galleries in Japan, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and the United States. He has organized several dozen individual exhibitions.