Jacek Yerka Surrealism Pictures

Jacek Yerka belongs to one of my favourite artists, he is from Poland and has already made a lot of exhibitions in Warsaw, Los Angeles, Dusseldorf, London and Paris. His home is not just his castle it is a studio as well.

Jacek was born in 1952 and only in 1980 became a real successful artist. While studying at the University, Yerka can’t stand the pressure of teachers and instructors - they told him what to do and how to do and told him to be less realistic. But, Jacek didn’t pay attention, he continued working in a Flemish style. And, finally, teachers gave up and admitted Jacek to be a genius.

The first serious picture of Jacek was made a year before entering the college. In college, he studied graphics. Yerka had a very happy childhood and considered it to be a some kind of Golden Age. Everything was beautiful: buildings, people, architecture… namely these surrounding made a great artist out of me.

And now let’s talk a little about Yerka’s paintings. It is not easy to draw a picture. The first stage is - work of imagination, then comes a turn of a small rough copy. The 3d stage - time proving, a project rests for some time and if after a week or two the artist still has no decision to go on with it, it will never see real life or can be sold to a collector.

Each work costs approximately rough $3000. Yerka’s paintings are mainly acrylic on canvas.

P. S. In warm weather artist works below his favourite tree. Jacek says, that its scent inspires him…