Originally based in Poland, he moved to Scotland during the Second World War, and later worked in England and the Netherlands.

He went on to study at the Kunstgewerbeschule at Vienna, the art school that rejected Adolf Hitler 20 years earlier, and also in Paris and in Poznań, Poland.

After leaving Poland in 1939 and a short period in France in 1940, Przespolewski moved to the United Kingdom, where he was stationed for some time with the Polish Armed Forces in the West in Biggar, Scotland.

At her studio in the attic of The Bell Rock House, he painted a number of portraits, nudes, still lives and landscapes.

They moved to Salford (near Manchester, England) where he had a number of odd jobs and appointments as designer for the ceramic industries.