Education:
2 years studying fine art in Budapest - interrupted by emigration
to Canada.
Circumstances led her to become a Fashion Designer, owning her
business for over 15 years.
Leaves business to pursue her lifetime desire to study art - has
been taking live drawing and painting classes for 6 years now.
Style of painting:
Blend of impressionism and representational.
Academic approach to figure painting gives way to repeat the same
subject matter with more freedom and less accuracy. "while
I hold the whole image in my mind and hand, I am looking for another
way to reflect it, with a contemporary flair"
Influences:
Francisco De Goya, Diego Velazquez, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani,
Gustav Klimt, Japanese and Chinese art.
Subject Matter:
Figure painting and portraiture seeking the person.
Repetitions, subjects like fabrics, books, cups and saucers, shoes,
etc.
Contrasts, in action or shape, colors, etc...Expressing opposite
forces in human nature and mother nature
Hopes to Achieve:
Balance - striking a balance between too much and not enough detail
Simplicity
Why She Paints:
"I choose to paint a subject because of the urge
it creates in me to paint it. Because I have to. It moves me or
I identify with it, because I understand it or I want to understand
it. Because it is beautiful or disturbing."
"What I desire most is to transfer
my emotions to the canvas, to convey my point of view and experience
to tell the viewer about it. To share it and to leave an uplifting
feeling in the viewer that fundamentally all is well."
Last Word:
"Painting is a very humbling experience."
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