Leszek M Slawek is a Polish-born American entrepreneur turned artist late, whose vibrant,expressive work explores the resonance of color and the chaos of emotions. Born in Lublin,Poland in 1958, Slawek came of age during a politically volatile era. As an anti-communist he was forced to flee Poland in 1985 and was granted political asylum in the United States, becoming an American in 1990. He spent the next 25 years living and working in Connecticut and New York, raising a family while building a successful entrepreneurial career. He graduated from the Morse School of Business in Hartford, Connecticut in 1992. Throughout his life, art remained a quiet but persistent presence. He began painting in oil in 1991, creating works for family and friends drawn by a lifelong passion for visual expression. In 2010 Slawek returned to Lublin and gradually shifted his focus from business to art. By 2015, he fully embraced his identity as a self-taught emerging artist, bringing decades of lived experience to his creative practice. His art is influenced and shaped by his interests in psychology and sociology,and Fauvist painters. Works primarily in oil and acrylic on canvas,with free-flowing or grid-like lines over the chaotic layers of vibrant color and fearless texture. They evoke meditations on memory and the human mind, unleashing psychological powers of line and color, and offer viewers a sense of tranquility and inner healing. Today, Leszek M Slawek divides his time between Connecticut and his studio in Lublin, Poland. He continues to evolve as an artist while staying rooted in the values of freedom, resilience, and creative exploration.