In 1981-1987 he studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He obtained his diploma in painting from Professor Stanisław Rodziński in 1987. He also attended graphic design classes with Professor Stanisław Wejman and Professor Włodzimierz Kunz. During his studies, he did theatre set designs for semester plays at the National Theatre School in Krakow. He worked on two projects for the Second Wrocław Studio directed by Mirosław Kocur. With time, graphics became the dominant form in his creative work.

Since 1988 the artist has been living in Toronto and working here as a graphic designer and painter. Since 1994, he has been on the artistic co-operative team for workshop printmakers Open Studio in Toronto. From 1998 to 2012 he taught printmaking workshops teaching etching and aquatint techniques. He has provided expertise to many Canadian visual artists on their printmaking projects. From 1991 to 1998, he studied semiotics and art history at the University of Toronto. During his studies, he was assistant set designer and artistic director at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto, and did set designs for graduate student productions. He has produced several murals for private client commissions.

The artist seeks to use traditional printmaking techniques to express a contemporary visual language. The means of execution of aquatint become the narrative of his prints oscillating around the theme of the horse and hippy and the interpretation of old masters' paintings. The artist is fascinated by the successive stages of working on the creation of prints. Paweł Zablocki has twice been invited to residencies at Atelier Val-David/Quebec and the Printshop in St. Michael/Newfoundland. He collaborates with Atelier Circulaire in Montreal, where he has participated in exhibitions on several occasions.

"My prints, whose dominant theme is the hippy, are a response to the magic of the everyday. With it, I tell the story of the entanglement of reality in language, evoked to express it. The almost emblematic iconographic formula, in spite of its realistic accents, realised with techniques stripped down to their constituent parts, allows a dialogue to be created with a rudimentary theme or even motif. In this way, the properties of visual language become protagonists on an equal footing with the traditionally understood narrative" (catalogue Sculpture-Drawing-Graphics, Niepołomice, 2016).

The artist collaborates with the Nikola Rukaj Gallery in Toronto, the Graphics and Poster Gallery on Hoża Street in Warsaw, the Art Gallery on Krakowskie Przedmieście and the Katarzyna Napiórkowska Art Gallery in Warsaw and Brussels. The artist's works are in the District Museum in Tarnow, Ernst & Young in Toronto and in private collections in Canada, France, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain and Poland.

Individual exhibitions: Leeps and Transitions, Open Studio, Toronto, 1993; Konie-c-wieku, Chimera, Kraków, 1999; Paweł Zablocki - Graphics, BWA, Tarnów, 2000; Sculpture - Drawing - Graphics, Royal Castle in Niepołomice, 2016; Paweł Zablocki - Graphics, District Museum, Tarnów, 2019.

Works in catalogue
"Little Gallaxy", 2012, aquatint, 21.5 x 15 cm; "Standing", 2016, aquatint, 21.5 x 15 cm. The horse is a leading theme in Paweł Zablocki's work, as evidenced by two works. In addition to the subject matter, the technical process itself, the individual stages of creating the prints, is important to the artist. The artist plays with the possibilities created by technical activities and the working process itself becomes the subject of his actions.