Nicholas Pujdak - Bio

Born in Arcadia, California, Nicholas Pujdak is one of four first generation sons in the US of European immigrants. His mother, a retired dress designer, hails from England, & his father, an Architect from Warsaw, Poland, a Holocaust survivor, was a entrepreneur who had his own successful Architectural firm. Designing buildings nationally and internationally. Nicholas currently resides in San Gabriel, California.

Nicholas showed gifting for drawing and painting at an early age. He has worked with several medias including, clay, wood, watercolors, pen and ink, pastels & acrylics. Furthermore he has worked along side a few prominent local artists, and also worked in several pottery shops as a designer in his early teens.

Nicholas studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, the Creative Arts Group in Sierra Madre California. His art reflects his love & inspiration from the Creation and its Creator. The media he presently works with is acrylics on canvas, color being one of his his main fascinations..

Being raised in California, and having the ocean so near, heading to the coastline seemed like the natural thing to do. So he took up surfing ( actually surfing took up him ) during his early teens. He surfed all along the California coastline, as well as the Baja Peninsula. He has also traveled to several places in the United States, Oregon, Florida, Kansas, Colorado, Kentucky, Oahu Hawaii & Canada, as well as overseas to Australia!.