Szilasi Ágota, H.: Víz - fény-szín-tér. Stílusvariációk egy technikára. Egri Országos Akvarell Biennálé 1968-2004 a Dobó István Vármúzeum kortárs akvarell gyűjteménye (Eger, 2006)
Erzsébet F. BALOGH (1955) Born in Miskolc, she graduated from the teacher training college in Eger in 1977, where she studied under János Seres and János Blaskó. Her teacher at the Hungarian College of Art was Árpád Szabados. She is a member of the National Society of Hungarian Artists and has been teaching at the Department of Drawing and Visual Communication at Eger's Károly Eszterházy (formerly Ho Chi Minh) College since 1985. Her art does not fit easily into any of the traditional art historical categories. Her paintings, pastels, mixed media works and watercolours display an autonomous artistic character based as they are on a personal mythology relying on her own existential experience and a spiritual sensitivity coming from a rich seam of emotional and psychological input. Her art involves the fitful application of cool blues and fiery reds, one on top of the other, through which flashes of emotion and periods of lyrical meditation are allowed to fill the picture surface. Tamás FERENC (1964) Born in Debrecen, he studied at the teacher training college in Eger (1986) under Ernő Nagy. Although his teacher at the Hungarian College of Art was Árpád Szabados, he benefited enormously from the advice of Péter Földi. He currently teaches at the István Dobó Grammar School in Eger. Rather than abiding by modern artistic conventions, he has rather, through his charcoal and pastel sketches and paintings, immersed himself in his own existential problems. His honest, gentle, reserved, discerning attitude means he is only capable of tolerating social and human shortcomings with difficulty. He adopts a personal artistic language when confronting mankind's defencelessness, helplessness, confusion, loneliness, uncertainty, frustration or anger, or those aberrations caused by the intervention of exterior influences. Prize winner atthe 1998 Eger Watercolour Biennial Péter FÖLDI (1949) Born in Somoskőújfalu, he graduated in art and mathematics at the teacher training college in Eger, where he studied under János Blaskó, János Seres and Ernő Nagy. He has been much influenced by Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Tivador Csontváry Kosztaand the work of Menyhért Tóth. Teaching at the Károly Eszterházy College in Eger since 1992, he is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Art, as well as being a Munkácsy prize winner and an Artist of Merit. He lives in Somoskőújfalu away from the hustle and bustle of Budapest and Hungary's major towns. While his main source is the village, his chosen mode of expression cannot be tied to any particular stylistic tendency. Nevertheless, his pictorial world, built as it is on his own individual mythology, decorative elements, a painterly approach and an expressive use of colour, is based on folk art traditions, the clarity of children's drawings and a certain naivity. He is concerned mainly with the botanical and the animal world birds, mammals through which he manages to address existential questions from a moral pointofview. Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1980,1984,1996 and 2002 114
