"I want there to be more creativity, color and free self-expression in the world than oppression.”

I am a Hungarian contemporary visual artist living and working in Finland, working primarily with mixed media. Creating art became a defining and survival-supporting part of my life relatively early on. Over several decades, my thinking has been shaped by personal trauma, as well as by my experiences relating to social justice, women’s and animal rights, and human dignity. I am convinced that traumas are worth transforming into steps for community building, shared development, and connection. I was born in a post-communist country, which for a long time had been increasingly evolving into a hybrid regime. Self-expression and existential safety of artists were restricted in many ways. As a result, I lost my connection to art for almost a decade and a half, although writing poetry has been an important part of my life since 2010. For a long time, I worked with the rehabilitation of traumatized dogs. In January 2024, my husband and I emigrated to Finland. The change opened up a new possibility for me to begin exploring the questions above through the language of visual art. Since 2024, I have been studying drawing and painting independently, developing my visual language through continuous practice and experimentation. The endless pine forests, exploring the Finnish archipelago, and the atmosphere of the harbors fill me with joy and constantly inspire me. Statement: My work begins with the observation of nature and with personal experience. Through organic forms, abstraction, recognisable motifs from nature, and the layering of different materials, I explore the forms and structures emerging from living systems. For me, nature is not merely a subject, but a way of thinking. Its recurring patterns, structures, adaptivity, and continuous transformation inspire my visual thinking. In my work, the coexistence of the organic and the geometric, the realistic and the abstract, the detailed and the loosely painted, the subtle and the intense creates tension. Vivid, high-energy colours, graphic marks, and layered surfaces draw attention not to an exact reproduction of nature, but to its transforming, interwoven structures and the sensations they evoke. I work with watercolour, gouache, water-soluble wax pastel, and oil pastel, as well as other water-based and graphic media. Consciously utilising the different behaviours of the materials and their effects on one another. Oil pastel is particularly important to me because of its depth and tactile surface presence: it gives my work textural characteristics that I cannot create in the same way with other media. I particularly enjoy working on 640 gsm, 100% cotton, acid-free paper, which is not merely a support for the work but an integral part of the artwork itself. I consciously seek materials and processes that allow me to pursue an artistic and archival practice with the smallest possible ecological footprint. This includes the use of solvent-free, water-soluble materials, as well as having moved away from using varnishes and fixatives, choosing non-toxic materials, colors, and pigments, and using appropriate framing and UV-protective, anti-reflective glass to provide long-term protection for the works. My works create visual spaces that simultaneously carry the traces of intuition and conscious decisions, while leaving room for the viewer’s own interpretation and possibility of connection.