In 1974-80 he studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Łódź (today the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts) at the Faculty of Industrial Design. After graduation he started his individual creative activity with special focus on fiber art. In 1991 he started the ”Text and Textile – fiber art” magazine, where he held the position of publisher and editor-in-chief until 1998. Since 1992 he has been a member of the editorial committee of ”Fibres & Textiles in Eastern Europe”. In 1994 he became the head of the Artistic Textile Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. From 1997 to 2018 he also worked at the Institute of Textile Architecture at the Lodz University of Technology, the Faculty of Materials Technology and Textile Design. In 2002, he was awarded the title of professor. In 2008 he ended his cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and took up a job as the head of the Unique Textile Studio at the Faculty of Textile and Fashion at the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. In his concurrent artistic activity he focuses mainly on exploring new possibilities of artistic expression in unique textiles, and he considers non-standard methods of warp construction which make it possible to obtain an additional function – illumination through the use of optical fibre (fibre optics) particularly significant. He has been a participant of over 210 collective exhibitions and the author of 40 individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad, winner of numerous awards in national and international competitions, juror, member of the European Textile Network, author of several publications.