Born in 1963 in Warsaw, Dariusz Mlacki studied painting at Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts earning his diploma in 1989 under Professors Tadeusz Dominik, Zbigniew Gostomski and Ryszard Winiarski.

The artist achieves his subtle effects through the use of several media—canvas, cork, ceramic and plaster—in creating many pieces of the same subject i.e., a series of envelopes on cork, a variety of Polish pottery, furniture, hats, cones, boats, candles, pistols. He uses several layers of paint on his cork artwork and very effective shadowing to achieve depth of field.

Mlacki also creates large-scale frescoes for restaurants and churches all over Poland.