Antoni Janusz Pastwa, Nude, Mixed Media on Paper, 1996

ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (born in 1944 in Brzoza near Kozienice). He attended the Secondary Art School in Kielce. Then, he studied at the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1964-1970, first in the studio of prof. Marian Wnuk, and later in the studio of prof. Stanisław Słonina. He obtained his diploma in 1970. In the years 1974-1981, he was working as an assistant at prof. Lard. In 1980, he became an assistant professor. from 1981 he ran a stone workshop. In 1987 he received an associate professor, and in 1992 he was appointed professor of fine arts. Since 1995, he has been running a sculpture studio at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art. Program Council of the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko. He has repeatedly participated in the works of the Jury of national sculpture competitions, often fully contributing to the sources found. Artistic supervisor of many sculptural realizations.