Surreal Paintings by Jacek Yerka

Jacek Yerka is a Polish surrealist painter from Toruń, Poland in 1952, where he later studied fine art and graphic design. According to Yerka, he was pressured by his university instructors to eschew detail and realism in favor of the fashion of the times – but did not relent, adhering to the meticulous classic Flemish technique that still typifies his work. In time they came to see him as a brilliant – though troubled – talent. Yerka graduated from the [...]