Ryszard Rybicki is a lifelong painter born in 1961 in Poland. He briefly attended art school in Bruges, Belgium. Since his first solo exhibition in 1987, his work has been shown in Poland, Germany, and the UK, where he moved in 2004. In his paintings, he seeks to convey the relationship between the intellectual and emotional perception of the world. He has designed and provided artwork to enhance many interiors and is a long-standing artist-in-residence at Mary Ward House in London.