About

I am a current student at University of East London, studying Graphic Design and Printmaking. Art has been my passion ever since I discovered a pencil. I can’t place myself to a specific genre but if I absolutely had to it would be somewhere in between Graphic Design and Illustration. As a young artist I am still trying to define my style of work, so far I would describe it as accurate and delicate. I like to take great care of each piece and make sure it is produced to high quality or else it is not worth exposing to the world, I am definitely a perfectionist when it comes to my own work. Living in digital age it is hard to ignore all the amazing software, however I believe that handmade pieces are so much more valuable and precious compared to digital. It takes great determination to producing a handmade piece, making unintentional mistakes part of the work often leads to uniqueness, such work cannot be re produced which makes it very admirable. I guess I try to re bell against all the brand new techniques on purpose, because I like spending time on solving problems that could be corrected in no time on computer software. I get my inspiration from quite literally everywhere

Friday

Erika Lakatos: Roman Icons, New York - Budapest 1996 - 2011

This was another exhibition at the Hungarian House of Photography, single artists exhibits. All the work was displayed very simply, due to the complexity of the art itself. As a viewer I didn't feel informed well enough what the work was about, I had to do my own research on the techniques used to produce the images. The photographer works with polaroid images and applies a fine art touch to them by enlarging photgraphs and applying paint using a colourful pallet. Even though Lakatos work didn't appeal to me and left me feeling confuse, I still quite like the idea of working and re-arranging photographs by using different type of media on the image, creating unusual effects. Perhaps its something I could experiment with over the summer. My favourite piece of work out of the whole set was the image below, mostly because of its beautiful earthy colour scheme and soft marks of distortion. 

Erika Lakatos Untitled, 1996-2011