Own technique, acrylic on canvas, 32 x 22 cm, signed on the back, framed by the author.
Gift of the Artist.
Ireneusz Jankowski
Born in 1947 in Sokolow Podlaski - visual artist and educator. Works creatively in the field of cultural animation, education, painting, ceramics and drawing.
He received his artistic education at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Gdansk (now the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk). He also graduated from the Postgraduate School of Educational Policy and Management at the University of Warsaw. Since 1992, he has been teaching an original visual arts program at the XXXIV High School with Bilingual Branches named after Miguel de Cervantes in Warsaw.
Educating future visual artists is his passion, to which he devotes himself with a big heart. In his career, he has prepared a whole host of young people for studies at academies of fine arts, who are now recognized Polish artists. Since the 1980s he has been involved in cultural education and cultural animation, working with the Mazovian Institute of Culture, among others.
Ireneusz Jankowski also devotes himself to his own work. The main motif in the artist's works is a processed, synthesized landscape, passing into abstraction. Through his own technique, developed over the years, he creates reliefs in which geometric compositions are minimalist, giving a mood of calm and a sense of the absolute through ordered forms of figures, lines and color. He also works in painting and ceramics.
The artist has participated in dozens of individual and collective exhibitions both at home and abroad. He also organizes open air events, art actions and art workshops. He has received many awards for his educational activities, including: the Award of the President of the City of . Warsaw (2017), Award of the Mayor of Mokotow District (2012), Medal of the National Education Commission (2006), Award of the Minister of National Education (1996), Award of the Superintendent of Education (1993).
