Since 1983 he received national and international recognition as a nonprofessional painter and won rewards in many contests. His paintings are present in de collections of the National Museum in Kielce, the Etnographic Museums of Warsaw, Krakow, Torun, Poznan and Radom, the Folkart museum of Otrebusy, as well as in prestigious galleries and private collections in Poland, Australia, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and the United States of America. He had expositions in Germany (Fulda, Münster, Leipzig), Ukraine (Lviv), France (Paris and Nice) and Switzerland (Zürich). In 2006 he was honored with the important Oskar Kolberg award and the silver medal “Gloria Artis”. He died in 2021.