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)

taught by György Kling. She is a member of the Hungarian Painters' Association and the Hungarian Art Workshop Society, and has exhibited since 1980. Using a few chosen motifs (chairs, beds, windows) she creates interiors flooded with natural light. She only rarely ventures into the world of total abstraction, her paintings instead being dependent on at least one object or motif from which the whole composition develops. These spaces always reflect one mood or feel ing, dependent not on the exterior world or the depiction of a particular thing. She uses a restricted palette made up of blues, yellows, pastel shades, greys and whites in similar colour intensities.

Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1996 Ferenc LOBLER(1964)

Born in Szombathely, he began his career as a decorative artist. He is currently working as a graphic artist and a teacher at the Art Department of the Dániel Berzsenyi College in Szombathely. He is a member of the Hungarian Artists' Society and Association, the Hungarian Graphic Studios' Association, the Vas County Workshop and the Hungarian Watercolour Society. He has taken part in several group exhibitions.

János Demeter LÓRÁNT (1938)

Born in Békésszentandrás, he currently lives in Mezőzúr. He studied education at the University of Szeged between 1956 and 1959, where he was taught by László Vinkler. He is both a Munkácsy prize winner and Artist of Merit, and was one of the most original figures in Hungarian painting during the 1960s and 1970s. A solitary individual, he discovered his own subject matter and his suggestive means of expression early on in his career. He is interested in endless barren landscapes and sprawling river banks occupied by lonely, self-absorbed, cloistered figures (people and animals), the children of the earth in a space transformed. In contrast to the restricted palette, the greys, ochres, pinks of his oils, his watercolours, which exhibit abstract tendencies, and his textile pictures, are dominated by colour. In his most recent works his colours have become more forceful, while the pictures themselves have taken on a more surrealistic and ironical tone. During the 1980s he examined the pictorial possi bi I ities of texti les.

Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1972,1982 and 1992 István MADÁCSY (1965)

Hestudied art and biology at the György Bessenyei TeacherTrainingCollege in Szombathely between 1986 and 1990. From 1991 to 1996 he studied graphics at the Hungarian University for Visual Arts, before doing a postgraduate course in art education between 1996 and 1998. In 1997 he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg. He was a member of the Young Artists' Studio between 1995 and 2001, has been a member of the Hungarian Association of Graphic Artists since 1998 and has taught at the Art Department of Nyíregyháza College since 2000. His works are matt in finish, and involve the inscription of simple geometric forms into the middle of a monochrome background, still soft and damp from the application of paint, in thin understated silver lines. The frequent use

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