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Born in 1954 in Poland. Established in France in 1981, selected and awarded at the International Grands Prix, he has devoted himself exclusively to painting since 1990.


His paintings, worked in oil, pastel and watercolor, reflect his interest in studying the relationship between light and color.


Painter in residence at the Center Scolaire Jean Baptiste de la Salle in Lyon, he teaches painting techniques.

In 2009, he created "ATELIER ESPACE PASTEL" intended for the promotion and teaching of pastel to a large audience.


First Prize of the Société des Pastellistes de France in 2014, in 2015 he participated in the first International Pastel Festival in Suzhou, China.

In 2016, he exhibited at the 2nd International Pastel Biennial at Ming Gallery of Art in Suzhou. His paintings are part of the collections of the Pastel Museum in China.


Regularly invited by Les Pastellistes de France, in 2018 he won the “Jury's Favorite Prize” at the 18th International Pastel Festival in Feytiat (87).

In 2019 he was appointed Master Pastellist by the Société des Pastellistes de France and awarded the Richeson Pastel BRONZE Award in the competition for 100 best pastels in the world according to the American magazine PASTEL JOURNAL.


“Because of my style, I am in the tradition of chiaroscuro painters: before seeing color, I look at light. I am attracted by this particular relationship between light and color which passes through shadow. The shadow, which I consider to be a kind of "non-color", causes a dramatic effect in our eye: part of what we are looking at disappears if the light cannot reach it, that is what we do. let's call it chiaroscuro. An object lit from all sides seems flat to us, like a story of which we know the end. On the other hand, if the shadow hides part of it, we tell ourselves the invisible part - the object becomes mysterious , it comes to life ...


Through hundreds of paintings, oils, pastels and watercolors I have told the story of the objects, always in the realistic convention of chiaroscuro, so much appreciated by collectors. It taught me the profession of a painter.


Today I think of evolving towards the personalization of my adventure with the objects. The realistic chiaroscuro convention is no longer enough for me. I realized that too often objects depended on an anecdotal connection dictated by verisimilitude. Wouldn't they still have other reasons to exist? It is this “other reason” that I seek in my new approach to objects passing from conventional realism to emotional realism: the motifs of my old still lifes become autonomous to live an adventure dictated only by light, color and a setting. place that I call "new look". I start by painting an object as it is but on a large format, which gives it a new presence, a force that obliges me, at one point, to free it from old conventions ...

This shift would sometimes make me fall into abstraction, but the presence of objects is there to remind me that color, for me, cannot function on its own without becoming a banality ... "


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Born in 1954 in Poland. Established in France in 1981, selected and awarded at the International Grands Prix, he has devoted himself exclusively to painting since 1990.


His paintings, worked in oil, pastel and watercolor, reflect his interest in studying the relationship between light and color.


Painter in residence at the Center Scolaire Jean Baptiste de la Salle in Lyon, he teaches painting techniques.

In 2009, he created "ATELIER ESPACE PASTEL" intended for the promotion and teaching of pastel to a large audience.


First Prize of the Société des Pastellistes de France in 2014, in 2015 he participated in the first International Pastel Festival in Suzhou, China.

In 2016, he exhibited at the 2nd International Pastel Biennial at Ming Gallery of Art in Suzhou. His paintings are part of the collections of the Pastel Museum in China.


Regularly invited by Les Pastellistes de France, in 2018 he won the “Jury's Favorite Prize” at the 18th International Pastel Festival in Feytiat (87).

In 2019 he was appointed Master Pastellist by the Société des Pastellistes de France and awarded the Richeson Pastel BRONZE Award in the competition for 100 best pastels in the world according to the American magazine PASTEL JOURNAL.


“Because of my style, I am in the tradition of chiaroscuro painters: before seeing color, I look at light. I am attracted by this particular relationship between light and color which passes through shadow. The shadow, which I consider to be a kind of "non-color", causes a dramatic effect in our eye: part of what we are looking at disappears if the light cannot reach it, that is what we do. let's call it chiaroscuro. An object lit from all sides seems flat to us, like a story of which we know the end. On the other hand, if the shadow hides part of it, we tell ourselves the invisible part - the object becomes mysterious , it comes to life ...


Through hundreds of paintings, oils, pastels and watercolors I have told the story of the objects, always in the realistic convention of chiaroscuro, so much appreciated by collectors. It taught me the profession of a painter.


Today I think of evolving towards the personalization of my adventure with the objects. The realistic chiaroscuro convention is no longer enough for me. I realized that too often objects depended on an anecdotal connection dictated by verisimilitude. Wouldn't they still have other reasons to exist? It is this “other reason” that I seek in my new approach to objects passing from conventional realism to emotional realism: the motifs of my old still lifes become autonomous to live an adventure dictated only by light, color and a setting. place that I call "new look". I start by painting an object as it is but on a large format, which gives it a new presence, a force that obliges me, at one point, to free it from old conventions ...

This shift would sometimes make me fall into abstraction, but the presence of objects is there to remind me that color, for me, cannot function on its own without becoming a banality ... "

When was Jerzy Moscicki born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1954