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A spotlight on Hungarian artists...

Exhibition: Joyful

Featuring Robert Czibi and the Expecto Patronum

Robert Czibi is a local artist – so local that he actually works as the chef here at Park Theatre. Robert’s work is water colour and his most recent venture is in watercolor montage, which creates a beautiful abstract image.

This Expecto Patronum portion of the exhibition features a range of artists who are all donating their work towards raising money for the oldest Hungarian weekend school in London. Karolina Koza organises an Expecto every year at a new venue to raise the needed money for the school.


 

The following works are the ones not featured in the exhbition. 
If you are interested in any of the pieces please contact [email protected] 

 

Little leaf, ceramics

Ildiko Fogel grew up on the shore of lake Balaton in Balatonboglar. She studied drawing and textile design for years and then decided to move to the United Kingdom, where she graduated as a Ceramic Designer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Her main material is porcelain, a material which is just perfect to express how fragile but at the same time strong and resilient nature can be. She experiments with diverse methods and has worked out her own unique style.

 

 

Paradigm of Change, Enamel, 40 cm X 34 cm £POA

Gabi Cseh was born in Baja – South Hungary. In her town she got acquainted with the power of song, the magic of tales and the joy of the game. It was there where she also came closer to the mutual play of colours, materials and fire: enamelling. Enamel is a beloved media in Hungary taught in several art schools. Gabi is a poetic soul, she says: “I am the person who watches the birds soaring in the sky, the morning dew on the blades of grass.  I'm always on the way to the central point of myself.”

Gabi has participated in several group and solo exhibitions all over Europe.

 

 

Floral beauty, Enamel painting, 2002,  15.5 x 10.5 cm ( framed 26 x 21.5) £350 

Zsuzsanna Foroszán alias Tigerzsu is a fine artist, graduated fine art teacher. She was born in Gyula, South Hungary. Gyula is a very interesting, artistic town and Zsu got inspired to do art since she was a child. Art is her main passion and part of her life. She fell in love with enamel technique and painting in her teens; then she decided to study art and has graduated as an Art-visual communication teacher. After graduation she moved to London and worked in Tate Modern gallery for 6 years. Now she started her second degree in business.

 

 

No. 96, Oil on canvas, 2009, 36,5x37cm, £200

Csaba Aby Szabo. I am a professional painter was born and works in Debrecen, North Hungary. His favourite mediums are painting, graphics and computer graphics but he is also interested in mobile sculptures, installations, MailArt and experimental short film. He had over hudred exhibitions all over Europe and he is winner of several artistic awards in Hungary amongst them the eminent Nivó – price.

 

 

Tropical sensation, Hand painted porcelain set, 2014

Erika Albrecht  was trained as a professional porcelain painter in Herend Porcelain Manufacture in high level traditional hand painting of porcelain tableware.

Her works have an intense relationship between shapes, colours, shades and fine details. She creates motives inspired by the beauty of nature, flowers, birds, colourful creatures. Porcelain is for her an exclusive, elegant “canvas” for the vibrant, wide range of on glaze colours, which gives her the opportunity to create delicate patterns on the beautiful white, shiny surface.

Her collection comprises of tableware, objects and jewellery. 

 

 

Evening swallows the English countryside, 40 x 40cm, oil on canvas £1250

Orsi Cowell-Lehoczky (SWA), is an artist with an MA in screen printing (University of Fine Arts, Budapest) who is deeply involved with and immersed in painting. She has married an English guy 15 years ago, whilst they were both living in Bucharest, Romania. They have travelled, lived and worked all across Europe and Egypt, then settled in London in 2010. Orsi is member of the SWA and her painting won their Award in 2013. 

 

 

Kneeling nude II, oil on board, 2014, 21x13 cm framed, £200

Vilmos Huber is a man who has a lot to express. Self-expression plays a huge part in his life through painting and writing combined together. “Through my studies I met all the great painters. They taught me to be patient and consistent. And original in my art.“ he says. He has named his expressive style PAINTheSOUL. He is leading several art groups in Hungary and he tends to inspire others. He is in preparations for his next solo exhibition.

 

Crossart, 2014, Photograph, 50x70,  £180

Gergely Csigó lives in Sopron, west side of Hungary. He received his degree in photography “Photographic Artist” from National Association of Hungarian Photograpic Arts in Budapest and AFIAP – Artiste de la Federation International del’Art Photographique.

 He is a professional photographer who uses analogue and digital techniques, developing images in his own lab. He has exhibited more than 300 images in 5 solo and 20 group exhibitions in 21 countries. 

 

 

Parent with child Jesus, Icon, oil, 2015, 30x40, £260 

Ms Horváth, Irén Bazsó is one of the most famous Icon painters of Hungary. She has started studying how to paint icons at the painter’s academy of Sándor Jószai in 2003 and has spent studied for six years. She still studies regularly in summer camps organised for icon painters. Irén combines the strict rules of iconography with an innovative approach to shape of her painting and decoration of its carved frames. Therefore she is not only beloved by the relatively small orthodox Christian group In Hungary, but also amongst others. She has every year several solo exhibitions. Her goal is to produce artworks that are highly spiritual and to stop people and inspire them to think about the past, the future and the feelings, be that their own or that of other people.

 

 

Enjoying the dangers, silk painiting, 2014 75x75

Réka Somogyi has started her degree cours in textile design however she soon discovered  „writing her diary” with brush on silk. She documents the seasons around her, the weather, the movies, the books, everything that happens to her and foremostly the feelings all this evoke her. She decided to become a painter instead of a designer.

She is now, after ten years of persistent diary-painting,  acknowledged rather as a ladies’ painter, therefore she wanted leaving even bigger impact on them. She wanted her paintings off the walls and out on the streets! She has found a manufacturer and they started printing her paintings on garments and making dresses, raincoats, leggings and cushions from them.

Recently a Hungary-wide famous musician and a beloved contemporary poet have discovered her for themselves and a collaboration begun. They now perform together and sing the poems dressed in Réka’s dresses.  

 

 

Topcats, Mixed media on canvas, 2011, 78x58 £500

Gábor Füzér lives in Kaposvár. The city is nicknamed  „City of Clouds” and „City of Painters” in Hungary as famous Hungarian painters Rippl-Rónai, Galimberti and Vaszary lived and worked there.

Gabor Füzér has spent his childhood in the Villa of Rippl-Rónai. This was probably the place where he got his inspiration to become a painter. He won several artistic competitions. He mainly uses oil painting, but he is keen to experiment with other artistic techniques such as pastels too.

Main attributes of his work are looking for new ways of expression and experiments. Gábor doesn’t ever stick to certain types of painting; his works always represent new spiritual adventures and challenges. 

 

 

Mezőségi táj – Mezőség - Hungarian village, Acryl on board, 2005, 30x40 cm

Miklós Simon runs an art school for painting and enamelling techniques and organises summer camps for students and adults.

He is founder artistic leader of several artistic foundations and has been awarded 

He has international exhibitions since 1964 and his works are regularly exhibited in galleries of Austria, Germany and France.

He has been awarded several prizes and awards amongst them he has been named honorary freeman of his city, Szeged.  

 

 

Lady Poppy, 2011, Painted silk 10x12 cm  £20

Andrea Somogyi was born in a family of textile merchants, so it is not surprising that she chose to study textile design. She fell in love with natural silk and this is her favourite media since her graduation.

She is inspired by Art Nouveau – Secession which left strong influence on the architecture of Szeged, the South Hungarian city she lives in. She also likes nature, experiments with colours of peacock feathers or sunsets and never ending motifs in circles; eye catching mandalas.

Her paintings also appear on silk scarves and dresses.

 

 

Upwars, Enamel, 21.5x15 cm, 2014, £100

Beáta Barkos is an art teacher and artist from Szeged, south Hungary. Her favourite media is enamel which is a beloved form of expression in Hungary

She is interested in the origin of Hungarians, therefore main motifs of her works are rooted in legends, Hungarian fairy tales and folk music, however her approach is contemporary. She also likes combining her fine art with poems and has collaboration with contemporary poets of Hungary. 

She teaches in a high school in Szeged but also carries with her enamelling furnace and teaches enamel technique throughout Europe. She had several solo-exhibitions in Hungary, Austria and Germany and also often exhibits her works with her husband Miklos Simon who is a painter.