Since 1987 the BWA SOKÓŁ Contemporary Art Gallery has been organizing reviews of pastel painting, since 2002 in an international formula. In 1995, the artists taking part in the exhibitions established the Association of Polish Pastellists based in Nowy Sącz, which promotes this type of painting. At the exhibition "PASTA" we present a selection of several dozen works from the collection of the Association of Polish Pastelists. These works are mainly landscape painting made with dry or oil pastel, less often in a mixed technique (as a combination of these two pastel species). By selecting the works for the exhibition, we wanted to show the technical possibilities of pastel, and the variety of representations, a landscape theme common to almost all works - from abstraction to traditional, realistic paintng.


Artists: Marek Andała, Cyprian Biełaniec, Stanisław Chomiczewski, Jan Chrząszcz, Janusz Cywicki, Alicja Czebotar-Siemaszko, Katarzyna Czuchnowska, Joanna Garasińska, Jerzy Głuszek, Andrzej Guttfeld, Ilona Herc, Maria Idziak, Katarzyna Kania, Andrzej Stanisław Konieczny, Edward Kopaczew, Monika Krzakiewicz-Dańko, Anna Ksykiewicz, Marta Kula, Anna Lenkiewicz, Anna Lewińska, Lidia Maciejewska-Suchanek, Jan Marian Marciniak, Ryszard Miłek, Marek Darek Nierzwicki, Maria Polakowska-Prokopiak, Marta Rak-Podgórska, Małgorzata Ratajczyk, Grzegorz Ratajczyk, Hanna Romańska-Tusiewicz, Marek Rzeźniak, Maria Serwińska-Guttfeld, Marek Sołowiej, Jan Śliwiński, Janusz Trzebiatowski, Elżbieta Zuzelska-Zadora, Katarzyna Zwolińska.