Artist Jacek Yerka (116 works)

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Jacek Yerka - Jacek Yerka - pseudonym of Jacek Kowalski - on the author's early works you can see the letter "K", instead of the signature "YERKA" on later works.

Jacek was born in Northern Poland in 1952. The future artist grew up surrounded by medieval architecture, which miraculously survived bombing during the Second World War. The surroundings of the house and his grandmother's kitchen, where young Jacek spent a lot of time, had a huge influence on the artist's work.
"It seems to me that the 50s were a kind of Golden Age. These are the happy years of my childhood, filled with the magic of the world around me. In my works this is reflected in buildings, furniture and various pre-war trinkets. If I had to draw a computer, I would certainly include a pre-war aesthetics and to him,” says Jacek Jerka.

According to the artist, he painted his first painting even before entering college. Jacek Jerka studied graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. His teachers tried for some time to teach him to paint in a more modern, abstract, less detailed manner, but the artist saw this teacher's desire as an attempt to stifle his own style. Over time, Yerka's teachers abandoned these attempts, seeing the student's unusual talent.

Critics attribute Jacek Yerka's style to realistic surrealism and fantasy style. Jacek Jerka's meticulously rendered canvases are filled with echoes of famous surrealists of the past, from Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel to Salvador Dali and René Magritte.

American science fiction writer Harlan Ellison was so impressed by Yerka's work that he specially wrote 13 new short stories for Mind Fields, the first book of Yerka's work published in 1994. Each story relates to one of the thirty paintings by this remarkable Polish artist included in Mind Fields. In 1999, another book by Jacek Yerka, “The Fantastic Art of Jacek Yerka,” was published - a portfolio of 21 works by the artist.

In 1995, Jacek Jerka received the prestigious World Fantasy Award as the best artist.

Jacek Jerka's work has been exhibited in Poland, Germany, France, Monaco and the United States, and is also found in a number of collections around the world.