Adam Maciejewski

I am a former professional art conservator. Nearing the 35th spring of my life I had on my back nearly fifteen year long career in painting conservation. A time had come for me to make a decision and start living the live which I believed I had been destined to live. My activity and work as a restorer with each passing year would bring me less and less satisfaction. At the right moment the occasion presented itself and I was hired as a painting animator in the production of "Loving Vincent" the movie. That was quite an opportunity because you can rarely find job as a painter, where you paint all day long. And that was what happened: for 9 poignant months I would paint every day except weekends (some times) for 10 or more hours a day. But only when the production terminated I really started to ponder: what my painting is supposed to be like?
Even during my years spend in the field of art conservation I had never stopped exploring diverse artistic ways and experiment with them on my own. The practice and study of art conservation provided me with the knowledge and expertise on different techniques and styles, from the antiquity through Old Masters until the present day art. Through my work I had the possibility to examine directly a...

M.A., Painting Conservation, Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, 2009
Concentrations: Conservation and Restoration of Canvas Paintings, Panel Paintings, Wall Paintings and Wooden Polychrome Sculpture.

Master Course in Conservation of Mosaics and Inorganic Materials, Università degli Studi di Palermo and Centro Regionale per la Progettazione ed il Restauro dei Beni Culturali della Sicilia, Italy, 2008.

Wojciech Gerson Art High School in Warsaw, Poland, 2001
Concentrations: Exhibition Design