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)

and naturalism as well as abstract art was due to his years of isolation during the 1960s. His keen powers of observation and sensitivity manage to reconcile themselves in all his works, which are often expressed with humour and a certain amount of detached irony. His figures are a mixture of the extreme and the everyday, whose occasionally caricatured details laid down on a richly painted background give free rein to the imagination. The pictures' originality engage the viewer, leaving no room for indifference.

Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1976,1984,1988,1990 and 1992. Tihamér VIZI (1954)

Born in Bares. Having graduated from the teacher training college in Kaposvár he studied at the University of Pécs. His artistic talents were first recognised at Mihály Bakonyi's art school during the second half of the 1980s, and he has been an artist since 1997. As a result of his achievements at the Eger Watercolour Biennial he was made a member of the Hungarian Watercolour Society. He is particularly interested in teaching children, and runs an art school and a school art gallery in Pécs. In his work he creates a the fragile world made up of a few tiny abstract motifs. His pictures are not produced from pure watercolour alone, as the dense whirlpools of motifs linked together by the loosely applied colour are etched in in pencil.

Eger Watercolour award winner in 1988,1990 and 1992 András VÖRÖS (1955)

Born in Kaposvár, he attended the Újpest Free Art School between 1980 and 1990, where he studied under Béla Tóth and Tibor Katona. He was a member of the Young Artists' Studio between 1987 and 1990, and has been a member of the Cactus Communication Network of London from 1987. He has also been a member of the Kapos Art Fine and Applied Arts Association since 1990. His artistic activity began to blossom in the 1980s. He often uses the methods used by writers of graffiti in urban subcultures. His most recent works are enriched by symbolic geometric motifs, which are combined with powerful gestures and a bold mixture of colours. He paints the urban experience either in provocative graffiti tableaux full of a resigned, caustic irony, or lyrically sensitive pictures based on personal experience.

László ZSAN K0(1966)

Born in Budapest. A painter and graphic artist, he studied at the Hungarian College of Art, under Zoltán Tölg-Molnár. His paintings and graphics are characterised by an i 11 usion istic treatment of space and handling of form. Starting with classical conventions of perspective and the Renaissance pictorial tradition, with its interest in illusion, the artist builds up his picture only to overstep the rules of visual perspective and traditional pictorial space by constantly changing and mixing the frames of reference. In this way the mysterious constructions which occupy his pictures play on the paradoxical and the impossible.

Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1996.

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