About Me
Though I was working with jewelry since 1992, during my university years from 1996- except the years I spent in Finland with scholarship- I got far away from jewelry. This was partly due to the university thematics ( jewelry was not more than one semester during my studies) and on the other hand to my decision that I want to get acquainted with other scopes of the craft.
In this period of time, between 1996 and 2002, I was co-working with architects taking part in different interior designer works ( Bank Center, Barabás villa, private flats), I designed give-aways for firms (Fornax Ltd.) and awards (Credit Swiss: „The man of the year”). I have been working for NKÖM (Ministry of National Cultural Heritage) for several years . I designed and made representation boards, magazine holders, inscriptions for them.
In autumn 2002 I could easily say : no! I do not want to conclude compromises in my work, I do not want to fight with subcontractors or those who order my works. And I do not want to be stressed by deadlines.
This was the time when I decided to return to my original topic that I can keep under control and which I can coordinate myself – assuming also the responsibility alone.
I made up my mind to design a variety of jewelry set that never existed before. At that time were created my first steel jewels which were prepared with a sort of precise technology that was unkown in jewel-making before –as far as I know.
„Thinking in steel” and the new technology resulted in a jewelry variety that was in fact, a novelty of its kind. (Rings/stainless steel). These were my first works creating which I was working among the limits of my own rules. This was for me the first test of the professional design approach, which verified the additional knowledge that my university studies gave me. I am still grateful to my masters Vladimir Péter and András Bánfalvi for this.
Nowadays it became very important for me to know the person for whom the jewel will be made. To know her/him, to have a conversation with her/him, to map her/his wishes – these all help me to a cleared result. This result has not to be a „great invention”, but under fortunate circumstances we both, the ordering person and me, feel that we are present in the object. It occurs many times that the picture of the jewel appears in my mind already on the occasion of our first meeting.
Wedding-rings are particularly good personal intermediates, since they bear, as a matter of course, a surplus meaning. They are mystic objects…. I create them with pleasure.
CV:
2001 -freelance designer
2001 – Final- MA Degree – MOME – /metal designer-artist/
1999 – 2000 Scholarship in Finland, Lahti / Lahden Ammattikorkeakoulu
1996 – 2001 MOME
1994-96 – Graphical studies in a design studio, modelling, preliminary studies of plastic art attending the preparatory course of the Academy
1992-96 – designing and producing jewelry
1990-92 – Specialized training college, goldsmith qualification
1990 – Final exam in the secondary school
1972.08.09. – 5:23 – Budapest
