Wojciech Voytek Nowakowski

I was born in 1959, in a small city called Lenczyca, Poland - a city with a thousand year old history and many beautiful castles, old buildings and churches. I started to paint when I was about 8 years old - penetrating old buildings and old ruins of castles looking for treasures and antiques. I was charmed by the beauty of very old things and started to collect them, love, and appreciate them. I had the opportunity to regularly visit the museum, which was located in our town's castle, admiring old furniture, sculptures and of course paintings. Those experiences and the mysterious swamps surrounding Lenczyca had a huge impact on my work and life. The darkness of dungeons and legends about the greatest guardian of Lenczyca's treasure - Devil Boruta - appears on my work quite often. From that time I create my own magical world from my imagination and dreams, about life and death in the atmosphere of mystery.