Halima Nałęcz spent most of her youth as a political refugee, moving around Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Before settling in England in 1947, she studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Stefan Batory University, Poland, under the supervision of professor Michał Rouby. A visual artist, gallerist and patron of the arts, Nałęcz had a significant contribution in supporting the work of artists from the Polish diaspora as well as in promoting avant-garde art on the British market. Ranging from abstract to figurative, her paintings of the macro and micro elements of the natural world - from plants to animals, anthropomorphic figures and celestial bodies reveal, augment and translate the power of nature. Painted spontaneously, in a natural rhythm and pastel colours, her canvases evoke love, pleasure and imagination. Nałęcz was the co-founder of the New Vision Gallery and the owner of Drian Galleries at Porchester Place, London, her choice of artists focusing on Western European modern art. Among the artists she presented are Leon Zack, John Bellany, Geoffrey Armstrong, Grace Gardner, Zygmunt Turkiewicz, Ray Walker, Carl Luther, Kajt Kapolka, Eve Garrison, Edward Rogers. She donated works of contemporary art collected over the years, including her own works, to the National Museum in Warsaw and Gdańsk. In 2000, the documentation of the gallery’s artistic activity and the artists exhibiting it were transferred to the Tate Gallery Library in London.