Colony of Artists

Zbigniew Frączkiewicz
Szklarska Poręba, 6 Słoneczna str, tel.(0-75) 717-24-91
mail address  zbignief@dip.pl
http://free.art.pl/zbignief/

ZBIGNIEW FRĄCZKIEWICZ  
PEOPLE OF STEEL – exhibition at IZERSKIE GARBY in 1993.  
The sculptor’s sign of war camps KZ-GROSS ROSEN (The Monument in Chocianów 1973)  
SCULPTURE, PHOTO, COMPUTER – ZBIGNIEW FRĄCZKIEWICZ
 

Beata Kornicka-Konecka
Graduated from the Department of Painting-Graphics-Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań.
Diploma in Design Graphics – a book in 1983, reviewer – Grzegorz Marszałek
I practise drawing (many kinds): posters, book illustrations.
II prize at an International Competition “FABERCASTEC” in Poznań,
Works in many museums: Nurnberg, Jelenia Góra, Włocławek, Poznań.
Awarded with PEGAZ prize for an overall artistic output.
I took part in 26 collective exhibitions and 18 individual ones: Włocławek, Łódź, Warsaw, Poznań, Wrocław, Jelenia Góra, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, New York.

Address:
58-580 Szklarska Poręba The Centre for Artistic Education
"Esplanada"
tel. 717-34-88
email. esplanada@poczta.onet.pl
 

Janusz Konecki -  Artist
Graduated from the Department of Painting-Graphics-Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań.
Initially paintings in Tadeusz Brzozowski’s workshop, next a diploma in graphics in Professor’s Tadeusz Zachowski workshop in 1983.
I practise painting and drawing in my free time. I paint ecology type of armchairs for gardens.
Work in private collections – Belgium, England, Germany, Poland.
I took part in 21 collective exhibitions and 25 individual ones.
I am a member of an International Association of Friends in Gdańsk.
More important exhibitions: Poznań, Wrocław, Warsaw, Berlin, Hannover, New York.

Address:
58-580 Szklarska Poręba The Centre for Artistic Education
"Esplanada"
tel. 717-34-88
email. esplanada@poczta.onet.pl
 

Lidia and Tomasz Olszewscy
Home address and author’s gallery:  24a 11th Listopada str.   „Szamanówka”
Tel. 075 717 33 31, email – ollito@post.pl
www.ollitoart.pl

LIDIA ŚNIATYCKA-OLSZEWSKA – fine artist, interior architect, the member of The Polish Association of Fine Arts Artists (since 1958). She has graduated from Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń at the Department of Fine Arts, specialising in interior architecture and applied arts.

In her output she has numerous works in the domain of interior architecture – (Wrocław, Białystok, Grodno, Jelenia Góra and towns of the former Jelenia Góra Province). As the result of her activities on the verge of art and architecture she also became a member of The Association of Polish Architects (1975).

She took part in many collective exhibitions and two individual ones devoted to interior architecture and applied graphics (Białystok 1974 and Jelenia Góra 1977).

At the end of the 70s she became fascinated with work on the verge of art and town planning. She elaborated designs and projects dealing with introducing plastic and spatial order in towns, starting from general views which create the town’s climate (painter’s visions, concepts of space and colour arrangements) and ending up with stylish architectural details. In order to enrich her professional knowledge she completed post-graduate studies at Warsaw Technical University (1979) specialising in town planning.

For her activities on the verge of art and town planning the Main Board of Polish Town Planning Specialists’ Association awarded her with the Silver Mark of Honour TUP in 1983.

At the moment, after the years devoted to designing, she is in the process of describing her experiences and considerations in the electronic version book entitled “W Kręgu Starej Chaty” – www.ollitoart.pl/chata. She also creates impressionistic graphic-painting miniatures, which she calls “Mikrotwory” (“Micro-creatures”).

Tomasz Olszewski
– artistic photographer. Since 1959 member of the Association of Polish Artistic Photographers. He has graduated from University in Wrocław – faculties of economics and geography.
In the years 1953 – 1960 he participated in several national exhibitions and 14 foreign ones.
In 1986 he received the award of the Town of Wrocław in the field of photography.
In the years 1960 – 1982 he had 9 individual premiere exhibitions and published 2 photographic albums: “ Wrocław Stary i Nowy” (“Wrocław Old and New”) and “Moje Miasto” (“My Town”).
At the same time he was active in town planning studios (Wrocław, Białystok, Jelenia Góra), preparing photographic justification for landscape decisions.
In the years 1982 – 2000 he presented an individual exhibition “Kraina Wichrów i Mgieł” (“The Country of Gales and Fogs) – Jelenia Góra, Bad Harzburg, Szklarska Poręba.
He is interested in the visual side of social phenomena, of which he takes pictures, as of peculiar signs of the times.
Excursions in the woods with a camera have always been treated by him as relaxation and an escape from human issues, that is why in his shots of nature man appears only as an accessory figure.
At the moment he is preparing pattern volumes of new albums for publication.

Regina i Marek Puchała
Address: 10/2 Osiedle Huty str , Szklarska Poręba
Tel. 075 717 34

Regina Włodarczyk-Puchała was born in Nowogródek.
She received a distinction in fine arts at her graduation diploma in 1958. She has graduated from the Department of Ceramics and Glass at the State Fine Arts College in Wrocław. Her tutor was prof. Stanisław Dawski. Having completed her college education she took up a job at the Crystal Glass factory “Julia” in Szklarska Poręba at the position of designer and head specialist for pattern designing. She has had a significant influence on the development of industrial pattern designing and at the same time she has been searching for her own ways of expression. As the result of her work she managed to participated in over 40 national, international and individual exhibitions, as well as numerous competitions, in which she received many distinctions and awards. All her presented works, both nationally and internationally, were carried out in the “Julia” glass works, in which she keeps working until today. Since the very start she has been working with her husband Alexander Puchała. Till his last days they were representing a great artistic partnership. They took part in the same exhibitions and had common aims and achievements.

Grażyna Tereszkiewicz
She was born on 14.02.1967 in Jelenia Góra. She has graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, the Department of Painting and Graphics. Her tutor was prof. C.K. Kowalski. Since 1998 till 2000 she was working for the regional TV Aval in Jelenia Góra at the post of editing manager. She was also the author and assembly specialist of artistic programmes. She holds the title of the establishing member of the Society of Egypt Lovers “Herhor”, which seat is in Warsaw. Prof. Andrzej Niwiński manages the activities of the Society. At present she works in the community therapeutic centre in Szklarska Poręba as an educator. She runs classes with kits in artistic therapy.