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's paintings are about relationships: the relationships between one person and another, between a man and his dog or between the individual and his or her surroundings, for example. In literary terms, while other artists may be painters of the once-told short story, Kasprzyk is the painter of the oft-told tale.

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 nowhere. As Polish art authority 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."

Although his painting technique seems 19th century (and his characters practically medieval), there is a contemporary composition in each painting and a familiarity in his characters that make his paintings distinctly modern.

Mikolaj is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he taught for 12 years following his graduation. He lives with his wife, artist Bogna Gniazdowska, in Warsaw.