Jacek Yerka, Little Ice Age, 2019

crayon, pencil, gouache, cardboard, 20.9 x 29.5 cm signed p.d.: YERKA 19; signed, dated and described on the reverse: JACEK YERKA/"MAŁA EPOKA LODOWCOWA"/2019

origin: private collection, Warsaw

Jacek Yerka (owner: Jacek Kowalski) graduated in 1976 from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He specialized in graphic arts. Since 1980 he has devoted himself entirely to painting. Drawing on precise pictorial techniques modeled on the old masters (Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch), but above all on his own boundless imagination, he creates surreal compositions, especially admired by lovers of fantasy in all varieties. He inspired, for example, fantasy author Harlon Ellison to write 30 short stories, which, along with Yerka's paintings, made up the publication titled. "Mind Fields." The same American publishing house "Morpheus Intenational" published the album "The Fantastic Art of Jacek Yerka". In 1995 the artist was awarded the prestigious World Fantasy Award.