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It seems I am rather universal in techniques. When I think about keeping myself to only one technique, I feel great protest inside. Because I find unique features in each technique!
I paint:
⁃ with oil using brush and palette knife which is my favourite
⁃ soft pastel
⁃ oil pastel
⁃ watercolour
⁃ acrylic
⁃ gouache
⁃ tempera
⁃ coloured pencils
⁃ tush
⁃ mixed media techniques
I use texture pastes, golden leaf and fluid gold, combine everything that is possible to combine!
The material I immediately fell in love with was soft pastel and it stays my favourite till today. I think there is something beyond any logic, why you feel like that. It is just the way you feel - you enjoy every moment of working with it, you feel no fear or tension. Soft pastel is like something alive, it is silky under your hands, it literally emits light! I think painting living creatures is the best with soft pastel, but I also made a lot of landscapes and cityscapes with it, and even still life.
But I cannot say painting oil with palette knife is worse. It is just different, it gives you a lot of freedom, you feel no frames or restrictions, you feel pure happiness... Or watercolour - with it you are not the only creator, you cooperate with thepaint itself, it is absolutely unpredictable and so, so amazing!
"Vannak különbözö sztorik, amit más-más anyagba ki kell fejezni."
(It felt like something was inside me, and then it broke out.)
Catherine Varadi, (Interview with FM90 Campus Radio)
What painting techniques do you use?
Which technique is your favorite and why?
Can you walk us through your creative process?
Sometimes I get inspired by some view or person, or lights and the sky - and I just sit down and paint, till I have the result I like. I very rarely go back to my artworks, I make them all in a flow.
But sometimes, when something bothers me, if I feel frustration or pain, this feeling keeps on haunting me from inside - and the moment comes when I have to spill it out from myself. And again, I do it in a flow, I simply cannot stop, and I feel great relief when I finish my work.
What inspires the themes and subjects of your art?
I am inspired in different ways and by different things. Sometimes it is just a view or a shadow. But it can also be a political or social problem, war, something that touches me. And I never know how it will be. I feel it as something unpredictable, like element or storm.
What message or emotions do you aim to convey through your art?
Love and light are the most important for me in my art. I want to show beauty and the way of light - how it reflects in people, touches their souls. But it is also there everywhere around us.