Waldemar MARSHALEK, "The Man in the Woods."

70x50, oil on canvas, 2010

(born 1960 in Dobrzyca, Central Pomerania)

Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. He is a graduate of the High School of Arts in Koszalin. Studied in 1980-1985 at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Gdansk (now the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk), majoring in graphic design. He received his diploma in 1985. Immediately after graduation, he began teaching at the academy, first as an assistant, now as a professor at the Studio of Fundamentals of Artistic Graphics.

During his studies and for many years after graduation, he practiced lithography and did graphic design. Since 1994, he has practiced primarily painting and drawing. For the past year he has been interested in creating works in digital techniques. He has had over seventy solo exhibitions and participated in over three hundred group exhibitions at home and abroad. He lives and works in Gdansk.