Born in 1956 in the southern Polish city of Wadowice, Marysia Burr began her study of art at the Bielsko-Biala High School of Fine Arts, from which she graduate Magna Cum Laude. She then moved to Warsaw and entered the Polish Academy of Fine Arts where she majored in Graphic Arts with special emphasis on painting and drawing.
Her early art experience was greatly impacted by association and study with two of Poland's outstanding artists: Henryk Stazewski, whose abstract painting focused on the use of lines, light and color, and Eugeniuz Markowski, one of her Academy professors who shared with her...