Paweł Jackowski- netgaleria

I was born in 1957 in Poland. My father was a painter and my mother a window dresser and designer. My uncles were also artists.
I attended the Warsaw High School of Art , but most of my skills I owe to my family. They helped me acquire my taste for painting, drawing and sculpting and later influenced me greatly as a sculptor. We spent hours discussing art and exchanging points of view.
I’m very fortunate to be an artist!.
I’ve been a professional sculptor since 1983.
In the early years of my career I worked in the woodwork workshop of Tomasz Olszewski, conservating, renovating and reconstructing works of art. During this period I also got involved with Kuba Matejkowski in his foundry and produced my first bronze sculptures.
During the late 80’s I had a few exhibitions in Poland.
In 1993, I was granted a scholarship at the Polish-Egyptian Mission of Islamic Art and
Architecture in Cairo. I spent two years in that great and magical city which had a very
strong influence on my concept of art, changing my scale of importance i.e. not technique but perfection and classical material became most important. Egyptians have a distance to
reality, which agrees with my approach to art. My sculptures are my thoughts.
I try to express them as best I can. Some are understood, others not

IMPORTANT WORKS

1990 - Bust of Pablo Casals for his museum in San Juan

1991 - Sculptured portraits of Polish Nobel Prize winners for

EXPO In Seville

1992 - Bust of General Jozef Dwernicki

1993-94 - Restoration and remaking of stone and wooden

elements in the Emir Kebir Qurqumas Mosque in Cairo.

Since my return to Poland, I have been working in my studio near Warsaw and in a foundry.

At present I am designing and producing tables and seating using wood and metal.