I was born in the UK but since 1996 have lived and worked in Budapest, Hungary. I began my creative path at the age of 19 and to begin with was totally self-taught and it was always the aim to let images and impressions from within come more or less spontaneously. For me, the whole process has always represented a kind of 'soul work.' In the 1980's however, I did attend two fairly rigorous two-year part-time courses - the one diploma in painting at leamington College of FE and a Certificate in Craft Materials at Coventry University. These introduced me to several new techniques and a deeper understanding of art history.
I work mainly with mixed-media pieces on board using an array of material ranging from glass fragments, fabric pieces and wax. I am fascinated by materials that reflect and use a myriad of gold hues, silvers and luminescents against matt backgrounds.
I also create mixed-media paper collages, again, usually in A4 size. In these, I tend to employ a bastardised marbling technique for the background and then work into each composition using ink pen, gel pens, metal flakes and fragments of other paper, or materials with either holographic or luminescent surfaces.
I currently have several pieces represented by the Szentendre-based, virtual MiDo Galéria.
I am actively involved in the alternative Budapest art scene, participating in one-night events such as the Vad Art exhibitions, and am part of a well-established life drawing group, through which I have had the opportunity twice now to participate in two group exhibitions at prestigious venues. Since pandemic restrictions, I have also been participating again in the weekly Gozsdu Montmartre event, at Gozsdu Court in the city centre of Budapest.
Whilst in Coventry, England in the late 80's and early 90s, I exhibited regularly with an assorted group of artists called the 'Dream Illustrators' based near the city centre, as well as putting on solo exhibitons. I also lived in Brighton from 1994-1996 and exhibited with the Best Cave Gallery in several group exhibitions.
Budapest, Art9 Galéria, Ráday Street, Hungary
The exhibition will feature my most recent, as well as recent, collage-based abstractworks on Canvas, which feature squares and triangles superimposed on acrylic pours, or set within cracked, textural surfaces. 
Gozsdu Udvar Budapest, Hungary
Budapest has its very own event, following in the tradition of the Parisian Montmartre, for artists seliing their wares in the open air, in the city centre! It takes place every Thursday from 10 30 until 6. There are artists selling original works in media ranging from figurative to naive, to abstract works on Canvas, as well as cards, badges, jewellery, and other kinds of keepsakes.
To find this market, alight from the metro and Deák Ferenc Square, and walk along Király Utca. Gozsdu Udvar is an old city-centre courtyard that has been renovated in recent years to become one of Budapest's most well-known city attractions..
Brouhaha Gallery, Hong Kong: online exhibition 2022, my entry:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CiuoDomLIKo/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY
Woven Tale Press, February 2023, featuring an article about my work:
http://online.flipbuilder.com/eovs/lkfb/
Art Vue Foundation Prize, 2022, Special Mention:
https://www.magcloud.com/webviewer/2410724?__r=6607749&s=v
Pocket Star Gallery, group exhibition, Spring 2022. There was both a bricks-and-mortar exhibition in Athens, Greece, and an online one, lasting one month. The catalogue can still be downloaded from here:
https://www.pocketstargallery.com/making-colour-group-art-exhibition/
Both arrived today, 1 February 2023: red letter day! In the first catalogue, from the Art Vue Foundation, my entry received a special mention in their catalogue, here.
The other is part of a publication released by the Woven Tale Press, and can be featured here.
Sighted to be included in company such as this, among such fantastic work!
Translated from Hungarian here. Any inaccuracies in interpretation are purely mine.
This is one of the works that can be seen at the Pocket Star Gallery, with the 'Making Colours' exhibition. It was a bricks-and-mortar show to begin with, and for the July is now online here.
I now have six larger pieces on view at KAZI30, a community-run gallery at Kazinszky Utca30, part of the Ferdinand Gallery in Budapest! One of these includes 'Lunar' in my gallery here. I also have a series of A4 compositions as well as cards on view here.
Here is the link to the gallery:
http://www.facebook.com/Kazi30
I have also been participating in the so-called 'A jótékonyság jó' titled travelling exhibition with two pieces among about 70 other artists exhibiting - the object of the exhibition is to raise money for the damage caused by the Danube when it flooded in Budapest and Hungary in 2013:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201575407249143&set=gm.449037721886063&type=1&theater
Peter Mansfeld Gallery, Csepel-Sziget szakközépiskola Csepel Postagyár u. 10
This exhibition is a little retrospective, as many of the pictures are older ones that were reworked in recent years.
They comprise of mixed-media textural pieces on board, incorporating a range of materials such as cotton, bandages, glass fragments from smashed car windows, marbles, polystyrene, metal flakes, wax, paper and using acrylic paints and enamel. The title of the show therefore, is hopefully self-explanatory.
One of my largest pieces at 95x137cm, this is one of the pieces I have being shown currently at KAZI30, the Ferdinand Gallery, at Kazinszky Utca 30 Budapest, Hungary. Five other larger pieces are also on show here among many other varied kinds of works, alongside an album filled with A4-size collage pieces created on paper.
I have recently had a somewhat retrospective exhibition at the Peter Manseld Gallery in Csepel, Budapest. The show opened on the 28th May, until the 26th June. 17 of my larger mixed-media pieces were on show: some of these were older pieces, others older but recently reworked, others still much more recent.
All are textural mixed-media pieces on board, using materials ranging from bandages and cotton, to wax, marbles and glass fragments from smashed car windows and polystyrene, to acrylics and enamel, washed over eith luminescent paints.
I was born in the UK but since1996 have lived and worked in Budapest, Hungary. I began my creative path at the age of 19 and to begin with was totally self-taught and it was always the aim to let images and impressions from within come more or less spontaneously. For me, the whole process has always represented a kind of 'soul work.' In the 1980's however, I did attend two fairly rigorous two-year part-time courses - the one diploma in painting at leamington College of FE and a Certificate in Craft Materials at Coventry University. These introduced me to several new techniques and a deeper understanding of art history.
I work mainly with mixed-media pieces, using an array of material ranging from glass fragments, fabric pieces and wax. I am fascinated by materials that reflect and use a myriad of gold hues, silvers and iridescent paints against matt backgrounds. Mainly having used board surfaces in the past, I now work more often on Canvas.
I also create mixed-media paper collages, again, usually in A4 size. In these, I tend to employ a bastardised marbling technique for the background and then work into each composition using ink pen, gel pens, metal flakes and fragments of other paper, or materials with either holographic or luminescent surfaces.
Another skill which I have developed a great deal in the past, is in Life Drawing,band I have taken part in group exhibitions in recent years, showing these works.
I currently have several if my works represented at the virtual Mi Do gallery, based in Szentendre, Hungary.
Whilst in Coventry England in the late 80's early 90s, I exhibited regularly with an assorted group of artists called the 'Dream Illustrators' based near the city centre, as well as putting on solo exhibitions. I also lived in Brighton from 1994-1996 and exhibited with a gallery called the Bear Cave.
