60x70, oil on canvas
Signature on back - Wojciech Adam Witkowski "Winter Birches" 2016, oil, canvas, 60x70cm, Sierpc, Poland
Wojciech Adam Witkowski has lived in Sierpc since his birth. He has been painting for many years, mainly portraits, landscapes, flowers and horses. He is interested in various painting techniques, but mostly does oil painting, watercolor and pastel. In recent years, he has also often reached for acrylic paints.
A graduate of the Kazimierz Wielki Academy of Bydgoszcz. Postgraduate studies in "fine arts, history of art" at the Paweł Włodkowic Higher School in Płock. Postgraduate studies in "painting and drawing" at the Faculty of Graphics and Painting of the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.
For several years, he has been a member of the Adult Art Group "IMPRESSION" operating in the Center for Culture and Art in Sierpc and co-founder of the ASPekt art group associating postgraduates in "painting and drawing" from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. Chairman of the audit committee of the Mazovian Association of Fine Arts Artists.
Conducts art and ceramic classes for children, youth and adult artists. Long-time participant in dozens of national and international open-air art workshops.
Six times he won and several times was awarded and honored in national art competitions in the category of adult artists. Among other things, he won the 7th National Art Contest "Chapels and Churches in the Mazovian Landscape" in 2010 and the National Art Contest "Beauty of Mazovia" in 2015.
He has presented his works at dozens of individual exhibitions, including at the Kantor Mill Cultural and Historical Center in Strzegowo, the Frederic Chopin European Art Center in Sanniki, twice at the "P" Gallery in Plock, at the Mazovian Village Museum in Sierpc, at the Gallery im. Paweł Tencer Municipal Cultural Center in Gostynin, the Museum of Romanticism in Opinogóra, the Center for Culture and Art in Sierpc, the Darmstadt House in Plock, the "RAMA" Gallery of the Municipal Cultural Center in Józefów and many others.
He has participated in dozens of group and post-gallery exhibitions, including at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Kaliningrad, at the "Lviv's Own Thatch Gallery" located at the headquarters of the Lviv Society of Friends of Fine Arts, at the gallery of the Land Forces Club in the Warsaw Citadel, at the Museum of Polish Nobility in Ciechanow, at the Senate of the Republic of Poland in Warsaw, at the House of Creative Work in Uniejow, at the OFF Gallery Piotrkowska in Lodz, at the Galeria im. Boleslaw Biegas in Ciechanow, at the Mazovian Museum in Plock, at the Art Gallery on Prosta Street in Jablonna, at the "White Wall" Gallery of the Władysław Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz and many, many others.
His works are in private collections at home and abroad, including the United States, Israel, Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic and many others.
