Lukasz Huculak works primarily in gouache on paper and oil on canvas. His paintings seem rooted in the past, but they have a distinctly modern sensibility. The objects and scenes in them are timeless—they look as if they could have been produced last week or a hundred years ago. His subject matter is simple, typically spare still life paintings of bottles and other objects or sparse landscapes of his own imagination. With these simple tools, he focuses on the power of composition and the contrast between light and dark.

His gouache paintings are particularly noteworthy. He uses the medium in a unique way, building it up, scraping it and sanding it, almost as if he were creating a sculpture from the flat plane of the paper. The technique gives his works remarkable weight and depth. One can almost see the hidden sides of his objects.

Huculak lives and works in Wroclaw, Poland. He is a frequent exhibitor at the Galeria ART in Warsaw and elsewhere in Europe.