Dimensions: 73 x 60 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'YERKA 95'
signed, dated and inscribed on frame: 'JACEK YERKA | "AN OCEANIC BATHROOM" | ACRYLIC 1995'.
Exhibited
private collection, USA
Biography
Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun in 1976. He specialized in printmaking. Since 1980 he has devoted himself entirely to painting. Drawing on precise pictorial techniques 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.
