Bartosz Leszczyna (1974), Wall, 2020

70 x 60 cm, oil on canvas

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He defended his diploma in Prof. Leon Tarasewicz's studio in 1999 with a very good result with honorable mention, and defended the annex to his diploma in Prof. Edward Tarkowski's Studio of Technology and Techniques of Wall Painting. In the earlier period of his studies, he worked under the direction of Prof. Jan Tarasin and Stanisław Baj, among others. Jerzy Mierzwiak, who taught drawing and painting at the Warsaw High School of Fine Arts, from which Bartek graduated in 1994, was also an important pedagogue for him. In 1988-89 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).