The Beauty and the Beast Drawing

Over the decades of artistic activity I have been developing a personal mythology: my profane icons are an amalgamation of Mediterranean visions of lust, modern cinema and literature as well as archetypes emerging from the depths of the human soul. Each couple of years I try to renew my technique, staying faithful to my search for the ideal form. After I abandoned my original metier of gobelin-weaver, I turned to black and white collage, followed by a longer period of pencil and pastel drawings. Today I use gouache to let mystical visages, imaginary bodies and unseen landscapes materialize as pulsating filaments of energy. I was born in 1946 in Bulgaria. Even as a child I knew I would become an artist. At the age of nine I had already joined an adult drawing course. Starting from youth, reading and going to the cinema have always had a gread impact on my growing up. Especially world literature, the Greek mythology and 20th century cinema (Fellini, Truffaut etc.) left a deep impression on me. Some of the 20th century artists that have been influential to my work are Hans Bellmer and M.C. Escher. Classical music and operas (Beethoven and Verdi), Dali’s surrealism, the French impressionists have all shaped my vision. Since graduating I have always worked as a freelance artist. My gobelins, drawings and paintings (designed and executed by myself) has been part of numerous collective and solo exhibitions. I have been commissioned to illustrate literature and advertisement material, my work has been featured in different magazines. At several occasions, the Hungarian Television showed my pieces and interviewed me. My work is part of public and private collections across Europe.