Pawel Batura, B. 1983, Lullaby, 2016

oil, acrylic, canvas, 100.00 x 120.00 cm

In 2009 he graduated from the Faculty of Art at the University of Warmia and Mazury. He defended his master's thesis, the subject of which was the Polish school of illustration, and received a diploma in painting under the supervision of Prof. Stanislaw Andrzejewski. He was active in the Olsztyn Pantomime, where he introduced elements of performance and happening into the show. He worked for a living as a graphic designer in Olsztyn, in Warsaw and in Poznań in advertising agencies, in one of the chambers of commerce and industry, in a company designing and creating elements of scenography for the productions of most Polish television stations. He also worked in two Warsaw elementary schools. He currently works at a community center. At all other times he creates. In addition to oil painting, he deals with grotesque and macabre illustrations in digital-painting technique and makes small drawing forms using various techniques on paper. Sometimes he experiments with animation - combining traditional and digital techniques. In the fall of 2016, his paintings on canvas could be seen in a solo exhibition at the Rampa Theater Gallery in Warsaw. Prints of his digital illustrations were presented at the 3rd Suwałki Art Salon, in Alytus, Lithuania, and at the ExDigitalis Salon 2017 at the CCA in Toruń, among others. His paintings were presented at pre-auction exhibitions of Warsaw galleries and auction houses. He illustrated a number of short stories in the magazine Nowa Fantastyka. He has done illustration for articles and main graphic motifs for the covers of literature and art magazines.