Stas was born in 1964 in Liverpool, England from Polish immigrant parents fleeing from persecution in the Second World War. He is a practising contemporary painter with creative multimedia art skills. Despite his dyslexia and Polish speaking background he graduated MA in Multimedia Arts from Liverpool John Moores University School of Art in 2001, which added to his Fine Art BA from Leicester Polytechnic (De Montford University), gained in 1989.

He has painted constantly through the 90’s until taking a break in 2000 to explore a new strand of his creativity based on multimedia. Stas has started painting again in early 2002, refreshed and with a new eclectic vision of styles and themes constantly evolving and developing. The bodies of work are held together with conceptual themes from a diverse range of ideas. He produces his works in a meticulous yet spontaneous manner, with wit, to represent a world that he perceives as bizarre and strange. This mature style can be broken up into three distinctive themes: dwellings in sparse abstracted landscapes, primitive art reflecting on fatherhood and portraiture in the faux primitive manner.

The compositions develop by repeated painting over an impasto base and are created through layers of underpainting; they are then reworked by glazing over the existing forms to create a jewel like quality to the finished surface. This technique has matured and been honed on many small experimental abstracts, concerned with form and surface. They are an intimate look at a child’s viewpoint, that is playful and in awe of the world surrounding it. The work takes it influences from days out at the zoo, the aquarium and at home as the artist reinvents his visual relationships with the help of his 6-year-old daughter.

"House Work" is an ongoing exploration based on the theme of homes that embraces Stas's interest in buildings. The buildings are created from memory using caricatures of the notion of building styles; some of the images of the buildings are created in his computer using 3D Software in which he can build, explore the optimum angle, add lights and also play with shadows and atmosphere. The finished paintings are left with a freshness that reflects the influence of his faux primitive style. The forms focus on the individual elements creating icons, these are reminiscent of the models used in games such as Sim-City, in which you build virtual communities and the constant popularity of renovation and self-build TV programs facilitating lifestyle through homes.

The portraiture began by representing effigies of past and close friends and exploring self-portraiture in his new style. These works have been so popular that Stas often gets portrait commissions. The poses are kept simplistic with the sitter confronting the viewer on a brightly coloured background. The distortions of features support the paintings honest mannerism and are bereft of the traditional baggage associated with portraiture.