Kasprzyk's paintings are about relationships the relationships of one person to another, between a man and his dog or between the individual and his or her surroundings...

Kasprzyk studied under Professors Michal Bylina and Jacek Sienicki at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He graduated the Academy in 1977 and taught there for 12 years. He has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions throughout Europe and in many group exhibitions. Kasprzyk's paintings are about relationships the relationships of one person to another, between a man and his dog or between the individual and his or her surroundings, for example. If Kokoryn is the painter of the short story or the folk ballad, Kasprzyk is the painter of the oft-told tale. The written composition is done once, and that is it. The folk story is told over and over, always in much the same way but always with a nuance in the words or the manner in which it is told. So it is with Kasprzyk's paintings. He paints the same stories many times over, but always with subtle (or not-so-subtle) variations in color, composition or mood. His characters are engaged in trivial and often absurd activities juggling, chasing birds, tight-rope walking or building human pyramids in the middle of now here but, as Wojciech Tuleya describes it, "the characters in the pictures are very much involved with them. Their earnestness gives rise to a sense of irony; we feel that Mikolaj is winking at us." His painting technique is 19th century and his characters practically medieval, but there is a contemporary composition in each painting and a familiarity in his characters that make his paintings distinctly modern.