The technique of “Metalurgic Imaging” on steel plates is my invention and completely new. I have been perfecting this style of painting for the last ten years and presented it to the public for the first time in the year 2010 in the project “Hlava 23”- portraits of outstanding personalities of the czech society. The faces are burned into the steel by fire without the use of any other materials. The details are hand engraved and the colors are furter extracted from the inside of the steel and it’s very base by scorching. A stainless steel plate for me represents a challenge. It has the magic of endurance and durability bordering at eternity. Locking the image into such a endurig form and sending it out on a space ship journey through time inspires imagination and fantasy. For me, a painting is a magical gate into another world. Rich and miraculous such as the world around us. Look closer, behind those doors are miracles, endles oceans and a fine weav of stories of the people for whom the sea was the destiny.

“The people of the sea” is a collection of portraits of world renown polish seamen. It is a result of many years of cooperation with a legendary mariner and a writer Rudolf Krautschneider, who has been sailing out of polish harbors and collecting materials for a book about the people of the sea--”The Polish Seamen”. I am delighted to have the opportunity to join in his project and provide the faces of people whom he, the writer, painted with words. We left polish harbors on several trips around the north seas on Rudolf’s ship Victoria. When I got my own boat in Sweeden, a small wooden sailboat “Folkboat”, I had always returned to Poland which I had considered my home port. Eventualy I have purchased with friends a steel hulled sailboat in Holland and had it restored in polish Dziwnonow. This would be impossible without the understanding and generosity of the local ship trade people. Poland has became my safe harbor and the people in my portraits who are the blossoms of their maritime glory are my guides in the lore of the sea. I judge my ship travels in the Northern and Baltic sea to be just a glance through a keyhole into the awe inspiring and rich world of seamen .The world of people with hearts the size of oceans and spirits stronger then the storms.