Tadeusz NIEŚCIER (b. 1954), Berberis, 2021

oil, canvas; 55 x 100 cm;
Signed l. g.: T.N.;

Polish painter and photographer, lives and works in Podlasie, on the edge of the Knyszyn Forest. He received his master's degree in art in 1978 in the studio of Prof. Maksymilian Kasprowicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. In the same year, he represented the Academy at the "Diploma of the Year" exhibition Zachęta - Warsaw. In 2012, he received a doctorate from the Faculty of New Media and Stage Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Among other things, he lectures at the Bialystok University of Technology in the Art Department of the Faculty of Architecture. His work is based on careful observation of the simplest elements of plants, flowers and trees, bringing the study of detail and structure to almost abstract forms. He gives the classic technique of painting on canvas a contemporary, dynamic expression.

His canvases are radiant and vivid, showing all the energy and complexity of the natural world around him. His works are an intimate, personal and emotional tribute to nature. In his own words, "my painting (...) is an attempt to record what exists around me. The place where I live and work is submerged in nature. Gardens, fields, meadows and wilderness are my whole world - changeable, ephemeral... and yet eternal... as important as man. I am only a tiny part of this world, so I dare to get a little closer to it and try to understand it. Since I have absolutely no objective tools for this I am, in a sense, still painting a portrait of my own emotions, depending entirely on nature. I can't and don't want to be outside of it and without it."
Tadeusz Niescier's works are in many private collections in Poland and abroad mainly in Italy, France and the USA.