Figurative painter and draughtsman, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, who studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, 1979–83, with a postgraduate year, 1983–4. Prizes included John Milne Prize in Painting; George Duncan of Drumfork Travelling Scholarship, both at Duncan of Jordanstone; Elizabeth Greenshields Award, 1988; and Maude Gemmell Hutchison Prize, RSA Summer Exhibition. Fojcik was elected to SSA in 1992 and to SSWA in 1993. Group shows included Gallery 22 and Compass Gallery, both in Glasgow, and RSA, all 1988; RA Summer Exhibition, 1989; and Roots, Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, 1993. Had a solo show at Gallery 22, Cupar, 1984, later ones including The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh, from 1993, and Thackeray Gallery, 1996.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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