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Lajos Varkonyi
 
 
About the Artist

I have been brought up in Hungary, a small, picturesque European country that still today gives a lot of inspiration in my work with its colours, ambience and emotions. I also have spent several years in Switzerland from where I took my admiration of natural beauty. My work always contains elements of the natural environment as part of the universe whether it is in the content or in the material I use. Another source for my art is spirituality. I absorb the surrounding world and take it through an inner maturing process where I transcript the impressions, colours, emotions and shapes into a surreal, dream-like state that I then put down in oil or watercolour. With this transcription my paintings become interactive: with the few transformed visual clues I invite the beholder to enter this dream-like state and project their own world lead by their own personal history and subconscious.

 
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Flame castle

2006
watercolour , paper
40cm X 60cm

Flame castle

Dandelions

2006
watercolour,paper
40xm X 60cm

Dandelions

Embers

2006
watercolour, paper
40cm X 60cm

Embers
 
Education and biography
I have started my artistic education at the age of 12 in the studio of M. Bakonyi and R Kopek.
I have a masters degree as teacher of art
Exhibition History:

Solo exhibitions
Creation Gallery Budahegyvideki Parish Co. Budapest, Hungary, 2007
Etyek Festival Etyek, Hungary 2006
Jokai Club Cultural Centre Budapest, Hungary 2006
Taverna Club Budapest, Hungary 2005
Civic House Budapest, Hungary 2005
Bitterne Gallery Southampton, Hampshire, UK 2004
Creation Gallery Budapest, Hungary 2004
Grand Hotel Gellert Budapest, Hungary 2001
Millenium 2000 Etyek, Hungary 2000
New York Caf� Budapest, Hungary 2000
Jozsef Attila Cultural Centre Dunaharaszti, Hungary 1999
Hotel Mercure Korona Budapest, Hungary 1999
Jokai Club Cultural Centre Budapest, Hungary 1999
Bekasmegyer Residential Home Budapest Hungary 1998
MEDOSZ Heaquarters Budapest, Hungary 1997

Group exhibitions:

Hampshire Open Studios Pitt, Hamsphire, UK 2006
Brick Lane Gallery
London, UK 2006
Romsey Art Club Romsey, Hamsphire, UK 2003
Millenium Expo Art Seminar Dunaharaszti, Hungary 2000
Gyomaendrod Art Assembly Gyomaendrod, Hungary 2000
3+2 Art Group Veroce, Hungary 2000
DMA Exhibition Altdorf, Germany 2000
J.A.M. Art Centre Vecses, Hungary 2000
Hotel Rubin Business Centre Budapest, Hungray 1999
Art Teachers Exhibition Dunaharaszti, Hungary 1999
Artists Exhibition Dunaharaszti, Hungary 1999
Cserhat Art Society Budapest, Hungary 1999
Cserhat Art Society Budapest, Hungary 1998
Gyomaendrod Art Assembly Gyomaendrod, Hungary 1998
Cserhat Art Society Budapest, Hungary 1997
 
Future shows
Jokai Club, Budapest, Hungary, September 2007

My works can now be also seen in Art House, Bedford Place, Southampton, U.K.
 
Website:  www.lajosvarkonyi.co.uk
 
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