This exhibit at the Silesian Museum in Katowice, focuses on the work of naive painter Paweł Wróbel, whose expressive personality and distinctive painting put him on the same level as Teofil Ociepka and Erwin Sówka - two of the region’s most famous primitivist artists. Born in Szopienice, a young Wróbel spent much of his childhood roaming the Silesian landscape, exploring excavation sites and climbing spoil banks. Having to provide for himself from age 9, his artistic skills began to provide some extra income, though he lacked formal training. Nearly half his life was spent working in coal mines, first as a loader and later as a cutter. In his art, elements of the Silesian landscape are prominent - tall chimneys, pitheads, headframes and red familok buildings.