Biography

EUGENE PAPROCKI

American Impressionist

In every canvas painted by Eugene Paprocki flows an artistic talent which he has cultivated since childhood. As a young boy, Paprocki loved to color and draw, and at eight years old he started painting in acrylics, moving into oils just a short time later.

Some of Paprocki’s first professional paintings were highly detailed architectural studies of New York and Chicago. Many of these early paintings were purchased for the permanent collections of hotels including the Plaza and Mayfair Regent in New York and the Claridge, Whitehall, Tremont, and Talbott Hotels in Chicago.

During visits to many of the great museums in the United States and Europe, Paprocki was drawn to the familiar genius of the nineteenth century Impressionists, and he especially admired Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley. Through careful study of the Master’s paintings, Paprocki found direction in his own artistic vision. He brought to his intricate and measured canvases some of the impressionistic spontaneity and simplification, and working from the principal that “less is more”, his subject matter evolved from the cityscape to the countryside, the garden, the rural path, the distant sailboat, and the floral still life. Like the impressionists a century before, the painter pointed his brush toward nature, focusing on how the atmosphere pulsed around and within it, livening and changing it, sometimes subtly and sometimes so boldly that the effects of those changes give one pause. Eugene Paprocki now spends much of his time studying the artwork in a museum without walls, roaming the countryside of Europe, and flooding his imagination and his canvases with natural inspiration. The United Kingdom, and northern and southern France provide the most rewarding lessons for the painter’s landscapes.

Paprocki’s paintings evoke the timeless beauty of nature. If humankind can be witnessed in his canvases, it is only through the gentlest touch, the kindest and most integrated addition to the environment: a clay vase overflowing with flowers, a simple brick path shadowed by trees, a plain iron gate, rooftops or sailboats that mirror the contours of the clouds and sea. Nature rules the artist’s palette and the world he re-envisions.

The artist’s exhibitions include shows in Boston, New York, Chicago and Scottsdale, Arizona. Private collectors in the United States, Japan, England and Greece have acquired paintings by Eugene Paprocki. EJ’s art is also part of The White House Collection and is exhibited by the United States State Department in our foreign embassies.

As Mr. Paprocki’s representative, Gallerie Je Reviens is pleased and proud to exhibit and offer his art for your pleasure and appreciation.