
Pawel Widera was born in 1985 in Pszczyna, Poland. After high school, he studied at the Silesian University of Technology and graduated as a production management engineer which helped him with his family’s carpentry business. He started painting accidentally in 2013. He has has participated in exhibitions for naive and non-professional painting in Poland. In 2017, he won an award at the exhibition of non-professional painting named Ignatius Bienick in Bielsko-Biała (Poland). About his work, Pawel Widera says: “My paintings are not just naive art. I try different styles and techniques to express my thoughts and feelings, and sometimes to surprise the audience.”