Richard Tylman

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Richard Tylman
Richard Tylman (by David Cooper, 2006)
Born	January 30, 1952 (1952-01-30) (age 56) Kraków, Poland
Nationality	Polish-Canadian
Official website http://richardtylman.atspace.com/

Richard Tylman (born January 30, 1952) is a Polish-Canadian poet and painter. Born in Kraków, Poland as Ryszard Tylman, he has lived in Vancouver, Canada, since 1982. Tylman received his Master's degree in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.

Contents 1 Life 2 Poetry 3 Visual arts 4 Footnotes 5 Bibliography 5.1 Poetry 5.2 Anthologies 6 Selected sources 7 External links

[edit] Life

Tylman was the first of two children of Edward Tylman, professor of engineering from the Krakow University of Technology, and Danuta Krupa, college teacher of nursing. Tylman co-founded a student literary newspaper called “Skarpa” where he debuted his free verse poetry with an introduction by the Rector of Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts (PWST), and soon after, won the Grand Owl Poetry Award sponsored by the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. He received a Masters degree in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) and was chosen to represent Krakow at the national juried exhibition of paintings by the most prominent young professional artists.^[1][2][3] Following his graduation he worked as an arts instructor and theatre stage designer.

Tylman left Poland in 1981 and settled in Vancouver, where he pursued a career in graphic arts. He became a Canadian citizen in 1985.

[edit] Poetry

While in Canada, Tylman continued writing poetry, articles and essays in Polish throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, publishing a volume of poetry called Koty marcowe (The Felines of March) in Warsaw in 2002. He began writing poetry in English nearly a decade after becoming a Canadian citizen, and has self-published several limited editions of verse in English and Polish, including Imaginary Lovers, Living Inside the Moving Landscape, Privilege / Przywilej, Wax Poetics and Selections From an Old Shoebox.

[edit] Visual arts

In his early teens, Tylman became the youngest member of the Plastic Arts’ Club for adults^[4] at the DK HiL Community Centre in Krakow, Nowa Huta, and exhibited his first oil paintings in gallery group show. Following high-school he enrolled at the Krakow University of Technology Faculty of Architecture, encouraged by his father.^[4] However, within two years, it was clear he didn’t share his father's aspirations and in 1974, under the tutorage of professional artists Ewa and Ryszard Mrozowski, Tylman passed the entrance exams to the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts Faculty of Painting.

In opposition to the then leading trend toward post-expressionism in the Academy, Tylman maintained his artistic interest in hyperrealist painting.^[5] He defended his Master's Thesis at the atelier of Prof. Andrzej Strumiłło in 1979. A year later, Tylman was chosen by the Association of the Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP) to represent Krakow in Wrocław, at a national juried exhibition of “the most distinguishable individualities among painters of the new generation”.^[6][7] He was a set-design assistant at People's Theatre of Krakow (Teatr Ludowy) as well as an arts instructor, before emigrating to Canada.

While in Canada, Tylman pursued a career in commercial arts as an airbrush illustrator. His illustrations have appeared on billboards, bus shelters, the covers of several corporate annual reports and in brochures. His work has been featured in advertisements published in newspapers and magazines such as Time,^[8][9][10] Maclean's,^[11] and Chatelaine.^[12] Amongst the corporations for whom he provided illustrations are Petro-Canada, BCTel,^[13] and the British Columbia Lottery Corporation, as well as Canadian Pacific Airlines^[14][10] with Wardair,^[14] Pacific Western Airlines^[8] with American Express,^[15] Energy Mines and Resources Canada,^[16] Tourism British Columbia for Expo 86,^[17] West Edmonton Mall, Tetra Pak, Sun-Rype,^[12] The Province and others.

Tylman was part of a team which received an Award of Excellence (pictured here) at the 1991 Graphex competition in the category of illustration series for a series of illustrations provided by Tylman and used in a promotional campaign.^[18]

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Poetry

• Selections From an Old Shoebox (Vancouver: Aspidistra Press, 1998)
• Privilege / Przywilej (Vancouver: Aspidistra Press, 1999)
• Wax Poetics (Vancouver: Aspidistra Press, 2000)
• Living Inside the Moving Landscape (Vancouver: Aspidistra Press, 2000)
• Imaginary Lovers, and Other Poems (Vancouver: Aspidistra Press, 2001) [2]
• Koty marcowe: The Felines of March (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Nowy Świat, 2002) ISBN 83-88576-94-1

[edit] Anthologies

• Strumień Rocznik twórczy[3] (Vancouver: Strumień Pub., 1999, Vol. 1, ISSN 1488-8513)
• Strumień Rocznik twórczy[4] (Vancouver: Strumień Pub., 2000, Vol. 2, ISSN 1488-8513)
• Nowa Huta: Okruchy życia i meandry historii - Photo Anthology (Kraków, Wydawnictwo Towarzystwo Słowaków w Polsce, 2003) ISBN 83-89186-67-5

[edit] Selected sources

(in English)

• Richard Tylman, Imaginary Lovers (Vancouver BC: Aspidistra Press, 2001) p. 64.

(in Polish)

• Bogumił Pacak-Gamalski, "Anonsy wydawnicze" (Vancouver: Strumień, 2004, Vol. 3) p. 29
• Małgorzata Szymczyk-Karnasiewicz, "Mowa ojczysta nie spowszednieje mi nigdy" (Kraków: Głos, Tygodnik Nowohucki, 2003-08-08, Vol. 32-644) p. 9.
• Ryszard Tylman, Koty marcowe (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Nowy Świat, 2002) p. 120.
• Krystyna Misiewicz, Genealogia Rodziny Tylmanów (Wrocław - Warsaw, 1994)

[edit] External links

• Richard Tylman Official Website
• Paintings and Narrative by Richard Tylman
• Poetry of Richard Tylman in Polish