1. Adam Kossowski was a Polish artist, born in Nowy Sacz, notable for his works for the Catholic Church in England, where he arrived in 1943 as a refugee from Soviet labour camps and was invited in 1944 to join the Guild of Catholic Artists and Craftsmen.
In 1923, uncertain about a career as a painter, Kossowski began architecture studies at Warsaw Technical University.
On 29 October 1938, Adam Kossowski married Stefania Szurlej, whom he had met in Rome.
Adam Kossowski was named "senior assistant" at the Warsaw Academy of Art and won first prize in a competition to create interior sgraffito work at Warsaw's Central Railway Station.
Adam Kossowski's wife fled with her parents; and Adam Kossowski himself went east, where he was arrested by invading Russian troops in November 1939.
Adam Kossowski was first imprisoned at Skole and then at Kharkov, both in present Ukraine.
Adam Kossowski worked on a number of ceramics for the National Shrine of Saint Jude in Faversham, Kent, which was run by Fr.
Mr Adam Kossowski comes from Southern Poland, where East and West meet.
Adam Kossowski studied mural painting in Italy, taught in Warsaw and suffered for two and a half years in Russian prisons and labour camps.
Adam Kossowski is thoroughly mature artist of great vitality and exuberance but with the necessary discipline to harness these forces.
From 1953 to 1970, Adam Kossowski completed many commissions for large murals and reliefs.
Adam Kossowski often worked on it until late in the night or the early hours of morning.
Adam Kossowski died in London on 31 March 1986, aged 80, and is buried at Aylesford, Kent.