Category Archives: mixed-media pieces

Links to all catalogues and publications that have featured my work from 2022 to the present:

Brouhaha Gallery: online group exhibition 2022. Here is a link to my entry:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CiuoDomLIKo/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

Woven Tale Press, February 2023, featuring an article about my work:

http://online.flipbuilder.com/eovs/lkfb/

Art Vue Foundation Prize, 2022, Special Mention. Here is the catalogue featuring my entry, as well as all of those of the others who took part:

https://www.magcloud.com/webviewer/2410724?__r=6607749&s=v

Pocket Star Gallery, group exhibition, Spring 2022. There was both a bricks-and-mortar exhibition shown in Athens Greece as well as an an online one. Two of my works were shown. The catalogue can still be downloaded from here:

Budapest Gozsdu Montmartre

Affter such a long hiatus because of Covid, there were one or two occasions in May on the Wednesday when the Gozsdu Montmartre event reformed. However, there were one or two other difficulties as it seems there weren’t quite enough artists to make it as large a happening as could have been hoped for.

From next Wednesday as we come into July that, hopefully, will change. There should, if all goes well, be new faces as well as old ones, and hopefully more efforts to get the event better known!

I will be bringing some new, miniature works on Canvas – that is , new works less than 20 cm in size. After having worked a new series of deep space imagery using acrylic pours and splattered acrylic at the beginning of the year. Check out my my larger and smaller canvas size sections to see what is happening there.

Meanwhile, I have had two earlier works accepted at a group exhibition at the Pocket Star Gallery in Athens, Greece. The bricks-and-mortar stage, in which two prints of my work were shown, is now over. Soon, there will hopefully be links to the virtual exhibition. Since December, my work is also featured virtually at the Szentendre-based MIdo Galéria, and before the new year there was an auction in Szentendre as well as a group exhibition on Vecsés, a town just outside Budapest.

Recently too, there was a meeting in Szentendre among the old members of the life drawing group headed by Peter Fekete – and the chance to draw again, within this group.

Before that, I had attended some life-drawing sessions at the Budapest-based Kunstfuck residency. There were something of a shock to the system, as the poses there are to be completed in as little as one minute, maximum ten. One or two of these sketches appear on my Life drawing page. There was a very helpful way of delivering feedback at the end of each session – the works were displayed within the groups and likes were delivered with a piece of tape added to each piece liked. Shocks to the system can sometimes be useful in developing different ways of working and techniques, and here it was more to do with what new techniques could be applied to the discipline, rather than striving for accuracy per se. For the time being, I am pleased with the sketches shown here – there were one or two ideas for future techniques that were noted for future reference, however.

News

The first piece of news is that my work was included in a group exhibition at the Pro Art Ateliers centre gallery at Horánszky Utca 5, at the end of March 2019. The exhibition was a private affair, the second one to be organised by Peter Fekete for our life drawing group, and included the master work of Egyed László, who sadly died not long after he was still able to attend the opening.

I have updated the life drawing designs included here.


Exhibition: Hotel Corinthia this Saturday!

My next solo exhibition will be at the gallery venue of The Corinthia Hotel, Budapest! I am naturally very excited to be having the opportunity to exhibit there. The opening will be this coming Saturday 29 September, at  7;30 PM and Képes János, who has sometimes attended a life drawing group I also have exhibited with,  and will again, has kindly agreed to host it.

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Vad Árt Kiállítás 5/Wild Art Exhibition 5

 



This is the fifth one-night event of its kind, in Alternative Budapest, among the ruin pubs and other such haunts of the inner city and truly open to all, whether or not local or foreign. The only requirement is that each artist, whether or not painter, sculptor, singer, performer, musician or magician, should have a passion for performing and for being wildly creative!

Once again, here is the link

The time will be Thursday March 1st, expected to last beyond midnight, at the Füge Udvar.

Recently I have been attending bazaars at the cellar of the Painter’s Palace, another free and anarchic venue for artists to meet and attend such events as life drawing, collaborating on drawing events and creative writing.

Recently too my work has been chosen among Award-Winner/Award-Winner Finalists in the “Traditional Art” category of the 2017 Soul-Bridge Spiritual&Fantasy Art Contest of Europe. My work can be found among the other finalists via this link.

I also took part in the New York Artbox project event, with my entry with all information about it being shown on the big screen.

 

So 2016….

The summer was an enormously creative time, thanks in part to being able to work with artsits in the public, at the Gozsdu Court every Thursday in the city of Budapest (and at home too) via the Ferdinand Gallery.  Alas, that is no longer possible for the time being due to other commitments and anyway it is starting to get colder……

Several small pieces of mine are already on show at the Jancsó Galéria, at a cosy cellar in Kazinszky Utca 3.

Meanwhile, on the 25th November I will be involved in a group exhibition at Ráday Utca Budpest, organised by Péter Fekete, who has been hosting life-drawing classes, with wine and snacks – sometmies more – at the end of each session. On the 4th November I have been invited to show my work through the Mo Mo Csoport, or group, at the Rottenbiller Café, in the 7th district.  The working title will 1The Pearl of Great Price,’ or in Hungarian ‘A Nagy Értékü Gyöngy.’ Once  I have the invites ready, I will be posting more precise information.

 

So watch this space…..

Open Studio Day and New Works

This coming Saturday, March 19th at 4 00 PM, I will be hosting an Open Studio at my home at Rákosfalva. Nibbles will be provided, some drinks already available, but visitors are asked to bring either a bottle, or nibbles. I will show visitors my latest works, alongside older pieces, and present other smaller pieces in albums. I will give instructions on how to find me as soon as I know that enough people will be able to attend.

Here is an image of the latest work to be shown on My Colour Drawings page:Spring Paisley

This kind of design is very labour-intensive and soon I hope to have enough to create a keep calendar purely of these on my RedBubble website, which can be viewed here.

I have also ben working on a small series of citiscape works, which can be viewed here – some of these, at just 20×20 cm, cannot realy be inclided among my larger works, even though they are on canvas:

Columns in twilight

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All work shown here now comes with my unique signature.

Life Drawing and Small Works

Girl, reclining Girl, lyingThe life drawing group, organised by fellow artist Peter Fekete, is getting more lively, though new artists are always welcome to come: here are two new recent pieces of mine. The model was particularly pleased with the one I completed on the right.

Recently I attended an exhibition of EgyedEgyed László, at the Örkény Bookshop gallery on St István Körüt: his work is that of a real master. The exhibition venue was very well attended. Most of the pieces were drawn in subtle shades, though others were created using more pronounced outlines and others still were almost minimalist in places:

egyedworksEarlier on, the host of the life drawing class, Peter Fekete, put on a retrospective show for his late brother, Andrew Fekete, at a private venue, at the  Berekei Art Studio, 17 Andrassy Utca.  The work is described as being lyrically expressionist, borrowing from the themes of alchemy and Jung – the alchemy theme is certainly something that has interested me for the pőurposes of my own work. Here is a photo of Peter with the main organiser and the gallery owner behind him. The venue was beautifully lit and exceedingly fine wine was served fot the occasion. The work was rather mixed: the later works consisted of thick landscape daubs, whilst his earlier pieces, which I preferred, showed great intricacy in design. Peter talked about the work expressing the sense of alienation of growing up as an alien in London. Being a stranger in a strange land really can be fraying on delicate souls but there are plenty of ways in which it is easy enoughto end up feeling alienated to my mind.

Recently, for example, I encountered a small venue in the city that catered for Outsider Artists at the so-called Tárt kapu galéria – the art brut exhibition in this case, belonging to a group of individuals suffering from autism.  artbrutThis of course means that the artists cannot very well speak for themselves, with all the potential for such individuals being marginalised and therefore possibly patronised as a given – all the same, it was good to know the venue exists.

There is in any case still the chance that the life drawing group will be able to have a group exhibition at some point in the near future, depending on how well this can firt in with various commitments and timetables.

Finally here are some new pieces I have also put up here, belonging to my newer series of mixed-media works on paper:

Light and Gold Cave Light on sand and ocean surfaceMany of these have been completed at Gozsdu Court, as part of the Montmartre show, organised by the Ferdinand Gallery.

I am not sure how far that is running into the winter but for the time being, that does appear, still to be ongoing.

Updates to Site

Recently I have added or replaced several pieces as well as adding a whole new page for a set of much smaller pieces a while ago, some of which I had made into cards – these can be seen in ‘Smaller pieces.’

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There are some new canvas works in my ‘Larger mixed-media’ page too: This is another experiment in reflective, matt ad opaque surfaces, using gold and copper shades alongside greys, whites and iridescent opal.

Shimmer

 

I have also uploaded two or three additional life drawings.

Male Nude, reclining

 

I have added several new gold-paint based pieces created on paper on my ‘New paper mixed-media pieces’ section, experimenting still further with different textures, reflective surfaces and shapes.

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Finally I have just completed a new colour drawing using caran d’ache pencils at my colour drawing section.

Red Sickle Chaos

Much of the last few months has consisted of retracing certain steps made in order to move forward again and in looking both forward and back.