A graphic artist, printmaker and draughtsman, he was born in Czechowice-Dziedzice in 1953. He studied at the Faculty of Graphic Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (branch in Katowice) and obtained his diploma with distinction in 1978, whereupon he started teaching at the school’s Chair of Printmaking. Having obtained the academic title of Professor in 2001, he has held the position of full professor at the AFA in Katowice since 2010  and heads the Chair of Printmaking.