24″H x 22″W – oil on pressboard – 2024 SOLD
He is carrying our cross… because we all have one!
21″ x 20″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2024
24″ x 21″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2024
18″ x 12″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2024
21″ x 9″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2024
16″ x 12″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2024
18″ x 16″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2024
16″H x 15″D x 12″W – Raku-fired ceramic – 2024
19″ x 23″ – raku-fired ceramic with 24K gold & pure silver – 2024
I think the title speaks for itself…
20″ x 21″ – malted beer & vine bottles – 2024
14″ x 14″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2024
24″ x 19″ – raku-fired ceramic with pearl- 2024
6″x 5.5″x 2.5″ – Raku-fired ceramic – 2024
This commemorating ceramic sculpture will be given to patrons of the church. It could be hanged or placed on a table. It represents the miracle – the transformation of bread to roses which was the miracle that resulted in the sainthood of Elizabeth of Hungary, the queen of Spain in the XIII century.
Works created in 2023
18″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2023
11″ x 48″ – Hammered Copper – 2023
19″W x 36″L x 26″H – Wood Intarsia – 2023
Detail #1
maple frame with cherry, oak, pine & ash inlays
Detail #4
Black Pins with 24k gold & onyx
Detail #2
Designed Pins with 24k gold, pearl & onyx
Detail #3
White Pins with 24k gold & pearls
18″ dia. Raku fired ceramic – 2023
11″ x 48″ – Hammered Copper – 2023
16″ x 36″ – Hammered Copper – 2023
12″ x 45″ – Hammered copper with pearl – 2023
After three weeks of hammering this is the new door.
The old door needed a new face. It was some forty years old. I was asked by Father Tomas to make a copper covering… if possible. After making some calculations and talking to my friend Istvan Fujkin, we made a proposal and the working on approximately three weeks the result could be seen at the next picture.
11″ x 81″ – Hammered Copper – 2023
12″ x 81″ – Hammered Copper – 2023
12″ x 48″ – Hammered Copper – 2023
Works created in 2022
24″ long – Willow bark – 1974
24″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic mural – 1995 SOLD
20″ dia. – Raku-fired ceramic – 2022
20″ dia – Raku-fired ceramic – 2022
19″ dia. – Raku-fired ceramic – 2022
36″H x 72″L x 6″D – raku-fired ceramic mural – 1996 SOLD
23″H x 18″W – Raku-fired ceramic – 2022
19″ x 20″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2022
36″ dia. – white ash – 2022
I wanted to express eternal love. His love for his wife, Euridice is unparallel…
21″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2022
20″dia. – Raku-fired ceramic – 2022
36″ dia. – white ash – 2022
I made this carving with respect to all those doctors and nurses who jeopardized their carrier to express their concerns regarding the C-19 flu treatment. Like Prometheus who paid dearly for his love of man, these brave individuals are today’s Prometheus! This carving is my thank to them.
22″ x 18″ – Raku-fired ceramic – 2022
22″ x 19″ – Raku-fired ceramic – 2022
12″L x 6″W – rakufired ceramic – 2022 SOLD
24″ x 18″ – color pencil – 1994/2022
24″W x 30″H x 6″D – Raku-fired ceramic mural with ostrich egg – 1995
20″ dia. Raku-fired ceramic – 2022
18″dia. – Raku-fired ceramic – 2022 SOLD
Works created in 2021
20″ dia. raku-fired ceramic – 2021
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
23″H – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
18″ H – Rakurired ceramic – 2021
20″ dia. – raku-fired – 2021
19″dia. raku-fired ceramic – 2021
16″H x12″W x 6″D – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
20″x11″x8″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
21″ x 23″ – raku fired ceramic- 2021
16″H – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
16″H – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
16″H – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
22″H – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
20″dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021
20″ dia. – Rakufired ceramic – 2021
I like and learned from Aesop’s fables when I was a kid… now that I ‘eat most of the bread measured out for me’ I sculpted a few of them I like the most…
20″ dia. – rakufired ceramic – 2021
I liked and learned from Aesop’s fables when I was a kid… now that I ‘eat most of the bread measured out for me’ I sculpted a few of them I like the most…
20″dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021 I liked and learned from Aesop’s fables when I was a kid… now that I ‘eat most of the bread measured out for me’ I sculpted a few of them I like the most…
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021 I liked and learned from Aesop’s fables when I was a kid… now that I ‘eat most of the bread measured out for me’ I sculpted a few of them I like the most…
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021 I liked and learned from Aesop’s fables when I was a kid… now that I ‘eat most of the bread measured out for me’ I sculpted a few of them I like the most…
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2021 I liked and learned from Aesop’s fables when I was a kid… now that I ‘eat most of the bread measured out for me’ I sculpted a few of them I like the most…
12″ x 12″ – acrylic – 2021
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2014-2021
Works created in 2020
14″ x 14″ – acrylic on canvas with white pearl – 2020 SOLD
12″W x 12″H – acrylic on canvas – 2020
There are many stars died in our celestial neighborhood. More than a dozen of this type of ‘celestial paintings’, are just a few thousand light-years away. One day in the distant future our sun will do the same things… will make its own ‘painting… so more heavy elements will be produced…
20″W x 24″H – acrylic on canvas – 2020 SOLD
24″ dia. – acrylic on pressboard – 2020
24″ dia. – Acrylic on pressboard – 2020
8″W x 12″H – Acrylic on canvas – 2020
24″ x 18″ – acrylic on canvas – 2020
12″ x 12″ (in 21″ x 21″ frame) – acrylic on canvas – 2020
7″ x 5″ (in 10″ x 10″ frame) – acrylic on canvas – 2020
5″ x 7″ (in 10″ x 10″ frame) – acrylic on canvas – 2020
24″ x 18″ – acrylic on canvas – 2020
14″ x 14″ – acrylic – 2020
14″ x 14″ acrylic – 2020 SOLD
24″dia. – acrylic – 2020
7″ x 5″ – acrylic on canvas – 2020
12″ x 12″ – acrylic on canvas – 2020
The pandemic that started last year in November in China now devastated 180 countries. Many hundred thousand had perished. It may not appeal to you but I wanted to make a point of this event… and hope to avoid it…
10″ x 10″ – acrylic on canvas – 2020
12″ x 12″ – acrylic on canvas – 2020
18″W x 24″H – acrylic on canvas – 2020
12″ x 12″ – acrylic on canvas – 2020
19″ – raku-fiered – 2020
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2020 SOLD
14W x 11H – acrylic on canvas – 2020
My reoccurring subject… as a huge star runs out of its fuel it blows up as a supper-nova and there where all the heavy elements made. In our celestial neighborhood, there are a few of these. Our sun will one day also have this fate…
20″W x 16″H – acrylic on canvas – 2020
16″W x 20″H – acrylic on canvas – 2020
20″dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
12″W x 12H – acrylic on canvas – 2020
20″W x 16″H – acrylic – 2020, paintng
12″W x 16″H (In 17″W x 21″H frame) – acrylic on canvas – 2019/20 SOLD
~ 20″ dia. – Raku-fired ceramic – 2020 Dante’s unfulfilled love toward Beatrice also a reoccurring theme of my art. She did not even know the impression she made on the writer of the ‘Devine Comedy’.
16″ x 12″ – acrylic – 2020 SOLD
16″W x 12″H – acrylic on canvas – 2020
116″W x 21″H – Raku-fired ceramic – 2020
I wanted to express the disbelief of the disciples when Jesus told them that one of them will betray him. By sculpting only the hands and heads, their gesticulation shows their reaction to the devastating news. I hope it will find a place where will be appreciated.
18″dia. – oxidation fired ceramic – 2020 SOLD
24″ x 19″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
20″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
12″ x 12″ – acrylic – 2020
12″ x 12″ (in 14″ x 14″ frame) – acrylic – 2020
51″W x 14″H – hammered copper (in maple frame) – 2020
25″H – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
Some of my ‘collectors’ asked if I make only female nude sculptures… so I thought that Aphrodite’s (or Venus’) lover could be an answer to this. I was wondering to do the front or the back… I think this representation of a ‘perfect’ man’s body will be just the thing response…
It was very difficult to photograph as it is glazed with a white crackle glaze and it is glowing…
18″dia. – oxidation fired -2020 SOLD
12″ x 12″ – acrylic on canvas – 2020 SOLD
49″W x 8″H – acrylic – 2020 SOLD
16″ x 20″ – Acrylic on canvas – 2020
12″ x12″ – Acrylic – 2020 SOLD
18″dia. – Raku-fired ceramic – 2020 The apple… the one taken by Eva…
20″ dia. – raku-fired – 2020
20″ x 16″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
21″W x 20″H – Raku-fired ceramic – 2020 Ernest Hemingway’s short story is a reoccurring theme in my art. I could somehow relate to the hero of the book. I had many times the same feeling… did you?
20″ dia. – Raku-fired ceramic – 2020 Ernest Hemingway’s short story is a reoccurring theme in my art. I could somehow relate to the hero of the book. I had many times the same feeling… did you?
79″W x 29″H – raku-fired ceramic on wood backing – 1989/2020
On the right are the Magi, on left the parents of Jesus and in the middle the star, the David star, which leads the Magi to make their adoration…
19″dia. – Raku-fired ceramic – 2020 Dante’s unfulfilled love toward Beatrice is a reoccurring theme of my art. She did not even know the impression she made on the writer of the ‘Devine Comedy’.
14″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
24″ x 18″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2020
12″ x 12″ – Acrylic on canvas – 2020
Works created in 2019
21″ x 39″ – oil on canvas in cypress floating frame – 2019
I respect this man very much… Prof. Jordan Peterson. I recomend to read his book…
14″ x 18″ – mahogany with 24k gold & pure silver leaves – 2019 SOLD
9″ x 12″ x 6″ – mixed media – 1983-2019
18″ tall – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
12″ tall – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
12″ tall – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
21″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
16″x 21″ – Mahogany – 2019 I’ve found this piece wood at the curbs as part of a tray, thrown away. I could not let it end up at the dumping ground. So I took it home with the aim to crave something into it. That was some years ago. After thinking what was in this wood Jesus face looked at me. Now here is the result. I put 24k gold and pure silver to enhance the appearance of the work. And … I think Jesus deserves this treatment.
4″ dia. – gold plated ceramic – 2019
12″ tall x 24″ long – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
12″ x 12″ with a 5″ dia. rakufired ceramic medal
5″ dia – rakufired ceramic – 2019
12″ x 12″ with a 5″ medal – 2019
5″ dia. – rakufired ceramic – 2019
6″ dia – it is still in wax – 2019
11″ x 17″ (on a 15″x19″ wood backing) – raku-fired ceramic – 2019 I have done Jonah’s stories last year so I resolute to make a few more scene from the Torah. I like Noah as he ‘saved’ us and all the other creatures. Also he was reworded by the grape and became the first alcoholic… did you think about that? You may notice that I show a UFO on these pictures… because somehow the Angel had to came to Earth.
11″ x 17″ (on a 15″x19″ wood backing) – raku-fired ceramic – 2019 I have done Jonah’s stories last year so I resolute to make a few more scene from the Torah. I like Noah as he ‘saved’ us and all the other creatures. Also he was reworded by the grape and became the first alcoholic… did you think about that? You may notice that I show a UFO on these pictures… because somehow the Angel had to came to Earth.
11″ x 17″ (on a 15″x19″ wood backing) – raku-fired ceramic – 2019 I have done Jonah’s stories last year so I resolute to make a few more scene from the Torah. I like Noah as he ‘saved’ us and all the other creatures. Also he was reworded by the grape and became the first alcoholic… did you think about that? You may notice that I show a UFO on these pictures… because somehow the Angel had to came to Earth.
11″ x 17″ (on a 15″x19″ wood backing) – raku-fired ceramic – 2019 I have done Jonah’s stories last year so I resolute to make a few more scene from the Torah. I like Noah as he ‘saved’ us and all the other creatures. Also he was reworded by the grape and became the first alcoholic… did you think about that? You may notice that I show a UFO on these pictures… because somehow the Angel had to came to Earth.
26″ long – raaku-fired ceramic – 2019
26″ long – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
26″ long – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
18″W x 24″H – Bronze – 2006
I have found two separate skis at the curbs. I took them home and made a ‘takedown bow’ out of them. I ‘sculpted’ the middle handle part and by removing the bolts it could be ‘folded’ into two feet length. I used a bicycle brake line for the string. It is approximately a 70 to 80lb ‘instrument’. I had fun to design the arrow holder to ensure that the feathers will not touch anything during their release.
18″ x 48″ – rakufired ceramic – 2006/2019 SOLD The CN tower is one of the tallest tower at North America. When we arrived 1974 I have seen the Sicorsky helicopter placing the very top of the antena to the top. When during the summer one goes up and looks at Toronto hse/he will see that the city is crowned with trees. Green green and green with all the new skyscrapers sticking out of it. One summer nigh when we were living at highrise at Don Mills (701 Don Mills rd. 16th floor) I saw many lightening striking the tower. This picture try to cepture that moment.
20″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2019 This is my feminist art. It is Daniel’s judgment that saved Susanna from the two old village elders. She was accused of adultery by the elders because she did not fulfill their sexual demand. So they charged her and she was taken out of the village to be stoned when Daniel came by. He separated the two ‘no good’ elders and easily figured out that they were lying. Then the villagers took the two old ‘geezers’ and stoned them to death!! That is the reason I like this story… virtue wins over lying.
18″ dia. – hammered copper sheet – 1970/2019 I made that copper bowl when I was still studying engineering at the Technical University of Budapest. I had two sculptor teachers I took classes with. They were Istvan Kakonyi & Gyula Zorley. I learned a lot form then. It was not my official subject but by then I knew that I wanted to be a sculptor. It took 45 years that finally I do what I want. I had retired from engineering some seven years ago. But if you look what I did in the meantime on the art side… then I could say that never stopped since those early days.
12″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
12″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic with melted glass – 2019
18″ tall- raku-fired ceramic – 2019 SOLD
20″ long – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
18″ tall – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
18″ tall – raku-fired ceramic – 2019 SOLD
16″ x 20″ – acrylic on canvas -2019
23″ x 27″ – oil on canvas in cypress floating frame – 2019
As the title say I very much respect Prof. Jordan Peterson. He is one and maybe the only one who give good advice to young people, being male or female. I bought and read his ’12 rule to life’ just to see how close I spent my now 72 years. And interestingly I did it very close to his guidance. I made this painting to be hanged at my studio in respect to him.
10″ tall – raku-fired ceramic – 2019
16″ tal – raku-fired ceramic – 2019 SOLD
40″ x 26″ – hammered copper – 2019
4’6″ tall – beaver chewed oak branch – 2019 Some twenty plus years ago I have found this very strong oak branch at the shores of Cyprus Lake. Some beaver chewed of all the bark leaving his teeth marks on the branch. I took it home and took so many years to finally make this walking stick. Yes, pretty soon I will need it. At the top I inserted a bronze door knob and at the end made a copper cover not to let it split up.
4′ tall – bevear chewed popler – 2019 Some years ago I have found this very nice popler branch at the shores of Lake Ontario. Some beaver chewed of all the bark leaving his teeth marks on the branch. I took it to make walking stick out of it. My oldest son loved it so it is with him. At the top I inserted a bronze door knob and at the end made a copper cover not to let it split up.
24″ x 30″ – oil on pressboard in cypress floating frame – 2019
I thing everyone has this moment in their life…’Why Me’.
I made the sketch for this position some 45 years ago when I left my birth place Hungary. I could not go back at that time because I would have been jailed… and I wanted only study the great artist’s works at Italy. Looking back I did not have too many times that I felt that way in my life. I was, so far, fortunate if I may use this word. Apparently this picture was rejected at a gallery here in Toronto just a few weeks ago… due to its nudity. It seems that at somehow we are turning back to the ‘dark ages’. With this very ‘twisted pose’ of the legs I wanted to express the pain, anxiety and the unwavering belief of Job.
Works created in 2018
14″H x 6″D x ~6″W – Raku-fired ceramic – 2018 I made this set for a dear friend of mine.
19″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic on wood backing – 2018
18″ x 36″ – oil on canvas – 2018
it was interesting to see how the heavy clouds moved over the island of Cozumel just 20Km and we got not a drop of it.
I did this for my dear wife!!
19″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2018 (SOLD) Yes, some million years from now our life giving sun will go overdrive and explode. It will become a white dwarf.
20″ dia. – Raku-fired ceramic – 2018 SOLD It will come one of those days… some million years from now.
18″ x 24″ – oil on cancas – 2018
Life size ceramic sculpture on wood base – 1976 Peter was an avid bicycle rider and I asked if I could make his bust as he was on the bike. He had agreed and he was posing sitting on his bike for a few times. This sculpture was I think the first or second portraits and ‘Young David’ my university friend Andrew Szanto was the other one. Both of these sculptures are with them. I made this sculpture on a wire supported pole. It was solid clay and after finishing the sculpture I cut the top of it and hallowed the interior, to make certain that it would not blow apart in the kiln. It is glazed and fired in an oxidation kiln.
18″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2018 SOLD
9″W x 18″H – bronze – 2018 SOLD
48″W x 20″H – Bronze on wood backing – 2018
12″W x 12″H – bronze on wood backing – 2018
25″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 1991/2020
I made those for my sons, in case they may need it…
They are made of edged 3/4″ copper tubes and some compression fittings. After 6 months they still started.
I used gasoline as a fire fluid… that is the reason for the smoke. And the robber gasket will not let the gas evaporate!
14″W x 14″H – raku-fired ceramic – 2018
14″W x 14H – Raku-fired ceramic – 2018
14″W x 14″H – Raku-fired ceramic – 2018
14″W x 14″H – Raku-fired ceramic – 2018
14″W x 14″H – raku-fired ceramic – 2018
14″W x 14″H – raku-fired ceramic – 2018
14″W x 14″H – raku-fired ceramic – 2018
20″ dia – Raku-fired ceramic – 2018 (SOLD)
19″ dia. – Raku-fired ceramic on wood backing – 2018
18″ long – Raku-fired ceramic on black marble box – 2018
16″ long on a limestone box
24″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 1995-2018 I re-fired this piece and added silver on the moon and gold on the sun.
Silver wire wrapped polished stone from the shore of Lake Ontario
Works created in 2017
19″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
12″ x 14″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
In a few weeks it will be the 20th anniversary of the APEC-97 meeting at Vancouver. During that meeting of the heads of the Asia-Pacific nations there was a major demonstration mainly against the Indonesia president, the dictator, Mr. Suharto. According Transparency International he was the most corrupt leader in modern history. He has stolen an estimated $15–35 billion during his rule. This was at that time a well known fact. Less than six months after the meeting Mr. Suharto had to resign due to demonstration against him in his own country.
During those days were when the Canadian democracy, the Charter of Rights, was suspended. When our Prime Minister, Mr. Chrétien, was asked, what had been his reaction to the inconsiderate pepper spraying of the demonstrators he had a shameful response: “For me, pepper, I put it on my plate.”
One of my old acquaintances was at that place and he blamed his failing eyesight to ‘Sergeant Pepper’-s barbaric act.
You are wondering why I’m talking and making some sculptural expression about that twenty years old event.
Because of my artistic philosophy, which is as follows:
More than any other form of human expression, art acts as a barometer indicating the quality of life of humanity in any given society. In my view, the artist’s dedication having been filtered through his emotional and mental make-up dictates his actions, finding expression in literature, painting, sculpting, music and other art forms. This artistic expression becomes fruitful and meaningful only if it has an objective significance for the viewer.
12″ x 14″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
In a few weeks it will be the 20th anniversary of the APEC-97 meeting at Vancouver. During that meeting of the heads of the Asia-Pacific nations there was a major demonstration mainly against the Indonesia president, the dictator, Mr. Suharto. According Transparency International he was the most corrupt leader in modern history. He has stolen an estimated $15–35 billion during his rule. This was at that time a well known fact. Less than six months after the meeting Mr. Suharto had to resign due to demonstration against him in his own country.
During those days were when the Canadian democracy, the Charter of Rights, was suspended. When our Prime Minister, Mr. Chrétien, was asked, what had been his reaction to the inconsiderate pepper spraying of the demonstrators he had a shameful response: “For me, pepper, I put it on my plate.”
One of my old acquaintances was at that place and he blamed his failing eyesight to ‘Sergeant Pepper’-s barbaric act.
You are wondering why I’m talking and making some sculptural expression about that twenty years old event.
Because of my artistic philosophy, which is as follows:
More than any other form of human expression, art acts as a barometer indicating the quality of life of humanity in any given society. In my view, the artist’s dedication having been filtered through his emotional and mental make-up dictates his actions, finding expression in literature, painting, sculpting, music and other art forms. This artistic expression becomes fruitful and meaningful only if it has an objective significance for the viewer.
12″ x 14″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
In a few weeks it will be the 20th anniversary of the APEC-97 meeting at Vancouver. During that meeting of the heads of the Asia-Pacific nations there was a major demonstration mainly against the Indonesia president, the dictator, Mr. Suharto. According Transparency International he was the most corrupt leader in modern history. He has stolen an estimated $15–35 billion during his rule. This was at that time a well known fact. Less than six months after the meeting Mr. Suharto had to resign due to demonstration against him in his own country.
During those days were when the Canadian democracy, the Charter of Rights, was suspended. When our Prime Minister, Mr. Chrétien, was asked, what had been his reaction to the inconsiderate pepper spraying of the demonstrators he had a shameful response: “For me, pepper, I put it on my plate.”
One of my old acquaintances was at that place and he blamed his failing eyesight to ‘Sergeant Pepper’-s barbaric act.
You are wondering why I’m talking and making some sculptural expression about that twenty years old event.
Because of my artistic philosophy, which is as follows:
More than any other form of human expression, art acts as a barometer indicating the quality of life of humanity in any given society. In my view, the artist’s dedication having been filtered through his emotional and mental make-up dictates his actions, finding expression in literature, painting, sculpting, music and other art forms. This artistic expression becomes fruitful and meaningful only if it has an objective significance for the viewer.
12″ x 14″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
In a few weeks it will be the 20th anniversary of the APEC-97 meeting at Vancouver. During that meeting of the heads of the Asia-Pacific nations there was a major demonstration mainly against the Indonesia president, the dictator, Mr. Suharto. According Transparency International he was the most corrupt leader in modern history. He has stolen an estimated $15–35 billion during his rule. This was at that time a well known fact. Less than six months after the meeting Mr. Suharto had to resign due to demonstration against him in his own country.
During those days were when the Canadian democracy, the Charter of Rights, was suspended. When our Prime Minister, Mr. Chrétien, was asked, what had been his reaction to the inconsiderate pepper spraying of the demonstrators he had a shameful response: “For me, pepper, I put it on my plate.”
One of my old acquaintances was at that place and he blamed his failing eyesight to ‘Sergeant Pepper’-s barbaric act.
You are wondering why I’m talking and making some sculptural expression about that twenty years old event.
Because of my artistic philosophy, which is as follows:
More than any other form of human expression, art acts as a barometer indicating the quality of life of humanity in any given society. In my view, the artist’s dedication having been filtered through his emotional and mental make-up dictates his actions, finding expression in literature, painting, sculpting, music and other art forms. This artistic expression becomes fruitful and meaningful only if it has an objective significance for the viewer.
22″ x 53″ – oil on canvas – 2017
Any time I am out during the night I always look up to the sky and marvel the vastness of the Universe. Always this question come to my mind… are we alone… so in this painting I tried to capture this feeling. I wonder if you can relate to this matter.
36″H x 72″L x 6D” – Raku fired ceramic – 1995 – 2017
Almost all the religions say that life on earth will extinguish from fire falling from the sky. O yes, one can see that any given night all those shooting stars are the minuscule forerunners of the big one. So you can ask, why did I make this work? Do I want to scare you, or what…? No! I want to direct our attention to the fact that it is not a given that the human species will end up like that… If we would take this threat seriously, then we have “grown up” enough to prevent this celestial disaster… But will we wake up early enough before it is too late…?
33″ x 72″ – raku-fires ceramic – 1995 & 2017
6″ x 6″ – Silver maple branch in wood box (installation) – 2017
6″ x 6″ – Silver maple branch in wood box (installation) – 2017
We are not the only living organs that suffer from this illness…
36″H x 66″W x 6″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 2000 & 2017
I made sketches of this work 15 – 20 years ago. I was listening Bela Bartok’s “Cantata Profane”, a coral work based on an old Hungarian folk song. It is about an old hunter who did not teach his sons any occupations but rather to hunt for a miraculous deer stag. It turned out that his beloved sons became deers. I know that most of you will not understand the words of the coral work, but the emotions of this tale will come through in Bartok’s work.
There is a long story to the ‘Monkey’s Heart’. This is a seed of a bean that grows in the jungle of Brazil and the rainforest of some of the Caribbean islands. They are washed to sea by torrential rains and sometime travel to even as far as England floating many-many years in the sea. During my holidays on the Mayan Riviera I look for these seeds and polishing them up they become part of my jewelry making. According to native believes they have a ‘magic – healing’ effect on the owner. I just adore their durability and the their beautiful color.
There is a long story to the ‘Monkey’s Heart’. This is a seed of a bean that grows in the jungle of Brazil and the rainforest of some of the Caribbean islands. They are washed to sea by torrential rains and sometime travel to even as far as England floating many-many years in the sea. During my holidays on the Mayan Riviera I look for these seeds and polishing them up they become part of my jewelry making. According to native believes they have a ‘magic – healing’ effect on the owner. I just adore their durability and the their beautiful color.
19″dia. – oxidation fired earthenware – 1980 (SOLD)
This was the first of many interpretation of my feeling re LA and the possible earthquake over there.
Plate tectonics will split that city in to the sea one of these days.
I had colour glass melted into the bowl.
19″ dia. -Rakufired ceramic – 2017 (SOLD)
25″ tall – raku-fired ceramic – 2003 & 2017 SOLD
51″ x 21″ – oil on (3) canvas – 2017 The subject matter of this painting is slowly percolating in me for a long time.
I did not know how to convey my most inner feelings re our times.
Everything seems OK here where we are, but our doors are open and who knows what will ‘walk over’ through there.
You may not like this picture because though seems a very idyllic morning view but what is happening around the world one needs to be prepared.
No I am not going into politics but I have a question. How far would you go for your loved ones?
18″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 1992 (SOLD)
18″ – 2017
18″ x 36″ – oil on canvas – 2017 (SOLD)
19″dia. – rakufired ceramic – 2017 (SOLD)
13″H x 16″W – Raku-fired ceramic – 2017 SOLD
18″H x 24″W x 7″D – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
For a long time I wanted to make a lyre mainly because of two things. One,Leonard Cohen’s song the “Hallelujah”. I have heard it many-many times with different interpreters as… “…there was a sacred cord that David plied and pleased the Lord…” and the second one is a Hungarian poem which ‘sings’ about the 500 Welsh bards sent to the stake by Edward I of England for failing to sing his praises at a banquet in Montgomery Castle.
This poem was written by Arany Janos in 1857. He was asked to write a poem of praise for the visit of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, and that was the poem he written. I should not say it was not appreciated by the king.
I know the two are not even distantly related but I had to make ‘The Holy Lyre’ and this sculpture is the result.
If you ever worked with clay then you know how difficult could be to make a standing sculpture without an armature not to collapse into its footprint, but that is just the beginning. After it stands and finished… how would it dry? Would it crack then? So I put my faith into… I do not know what… and it dried just fine.
The bisque firing is mostly OK if the sculpture got that far, although placing it into the kiln needs very delicate handling. After glazing and place it into a hot electrical kiln is the most trying part. I was thinking a long time how to place it into the kiln. I could not handle the lyre with tongs because it would disintegrate under the pressing metal and also I would not even know where to grab it anyway. Finally I figured out how to do it.
I placed the sculpture on it back on a flat ceramic tile and together placed them into the kiln. I was listening, kind of waiting for some cracking sound after I closed the lid of the kiln as the temperature was rushing from approx. 1600F, when I placed the sculpture into the kiln, to the final temperature 2000F, but there was not any noise. The last difficult action was to take it out of the kiln and place it into sawdust. The hole firing took may be 45 minutes with the reduction at the end.
When I opened the lid of the reduction box and saw the unbroken finished piece I was overjoyed.
Approx 20″ dia – oxidation fired earthenware – 1992 (SOLD)
18″ x 36″ – oil on canvas – 2017 (SOLD)
Works created in 2016
21″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 This plate you will feel that it is political, but what can I do if nobody talks about the ongoing disaster at the Pacific Ocean. I feel I have to, so I made a plate depicting the taking of the last fish. It will come to this, as Fukushima is spurting uncontrolled radiation into the ocean.
20″ x 24″ – oil on canvas – 2016
I hope this picture will not ‘offend’ you.
After I made those two still-lives, ‘Fruit, Flower & 0.357 Magnum’ (which has found a home in Brazil) and the ‘Yellow Tulips, Fruits and a Deadly Threat’, one of my respected artist friends asked me “Paint something beautiful – like just a flower…”
As you know me by-now I need to have something different to show or may not to show anything at all. So, when my wife got a few tulips from her girl friend; and as the petals was falling off of them they revealed their inner sanctity, then I decided to show the ‘sexy reproductive organs’ of a tulip if you allow me to call it as it is.
The delicacy of the stamens and the stigma, the color variation of the petals around them are so beautiful that this is what I wanted to capture. Now I know that is far-far from the beauty of my very much loved and in my opinion the greatest American painter Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings … but … practice may help.
I just look outside and though the sun is shining but the Hg shows – 15C, so it is a few more months before I could work in my sculpting studio.
Hold warm thoughts, have a few laughs, have a Margarita in your hand and think about those warm summer days that will come.
19″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 (refired) SOLD I am concerned that we disturbing too many things as we look for some better… what. We dig up some soldiers at the arctic who died in the Spanish flu in 1918 … to what for… to make a better biological weapon? So that it is why I call this work: Don’t disturb the distant past…
21″ X 21″ – raku fired ceramic – 2016 I think this plate speaks for itself…
20″ dia – raku fired ceramic – 2016
This sketch was created in the late 80es and early 90es. By then I saw the anomalies of Globalization. So let me outline my thoughts about art and arts-man-ship. The artist is a person who is a more sensitive individual than the general public and can create a visual, literary, musical product, which the general public cannot do. Any art that the artist creates must be a demonstration of the artist emotional, mental and biological framework. As a result of this, every work is a manifestation of the artist’s life at the time when creation took place. So, in my opinion, art shows figuratively the world the artist live in and acts like a barometer registering the actions of the society. These artistic expressions hover between the two ends of creations which are at one end ‘pure beauty’ and at the other end ‘the message’. Artists should express their feelings, visions, and concerns of their time to show these qualms from a different point of view.
I believe a good piece of art is when the audience can extract certain thoughts or feelings from it, which they could use in a beneficial way in their lives. So in my work, specifically in this work, the message is the most important.
20″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 We had a cottage on Gull lake near Minden in the early 80-es. We built it from the ‘forest-up’ as it was a virgin forest before we got it. We spent all of our holidays and weekends for six years to make this ‘home away home’, but when we had twin boys on the way and I asked my wife to stay home to bring the three boys up, we sold our ‘country home’. Interestingly we never felt a loss about it. It was our durability test and it helped to buy our present home. But sometime the images of the view from the balcony come back. This is one of them.
16″ dia. – raku fired ceramic plate – 2016 (SOLD)
24″ x 18″ – oil on canvas – 2016
This was the view of Cozumel where we stayed at the Maya Riviera.
24″W x 20″H – oil on canvas – 2016 It was a hazy day and we were looking over to Maracas Bay which is the one that hardly seen. I was very much impressed by the Cocoa trees on the island. That is the branch that hangs over the top. Our host made some chocletmilk from the freshly ground cocoa. I still feel the taste of that marvelous drink.
24″W x 20″H – oil on canvas – 2016 It was a hazy day and we were standing a few hundred feet above the sea. The closest point of Venezuela is appox. 30km away but we could not even see the horizon, it was so hazy. In the foreground I painted a papaya tree. It was very interesting how the big fruits were hanging on the trunk of the tree. It really have impressed me.
20″ dia – raku fired ceramic – 2016 This sketch was created in the late 80es and early 90es. By then I saw the anomalies of Globalization. So let me outline my thoughts about art and arts-man-ship. The artist is a person who is a more sensitive individual than the general public and can create a visual, literary, musical product, which the general public cannot do.
Any art that the artist creates must be a demonstration of the artist emotional, mental and biological framework. As a result of this, every work is a manifestation of the artist’s life at the time when creation took place. So, in my opinion, art shows figuratively the world the artist live in and acts like a barometer registering the actions of the society.
These artistic expressions hover between the two ends of creations which are at one end ‘pure beauty’ and at the other end ‘the message’.
Artists should express their feelings, visions, and concerns of their time to show these qualms from a different point of view.
I believe a good piece of art is when the audience can extract certain thoughts or feelings from it, which they could use in a beneficial way in their lives. So in my work, specifically in this work, the message is the most important.
2 X 20″H x 24″W (Overall 20″ x 48″) – oil on canvas – 2016 SOLD
It was late morning when we got there. The sun was behind us and it was breathtaking to stand at the shore and look toward to Canada, some 2000 miles up north. We should all live in a warmer climate…
18″ x 36″ – oil – 2016
24″ x 51″ – hammered copper mural – 2016
We were visiting a dear friend at Halifax. It was an unforgettable week due to the host and her friends. One of our site visits was the famous Peggy’s Cove. It is a very interesting view. Nothing else but rocks-on-top-of-rocks. If you were there you know what I am talking about. But … it has its beauty!
At first view I said to myself … this is it? … but then its grandiosity grew on me. Now this is my interpretation of the place and certainly I‘ve combined a few views to have this picture.
It was a very beautiful sunny day and I ‘almost saw’ the outlines of the British island…
I covered the water and the sun with pure silver and aged it with some sulfur; that is the reason why the sea and the settling sun have this golden shine.
20″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 In my mind this has a religious connotation, you will be the judge.
19″ x 19″ – raku fired ceramic – 2016 SOLD We had a cottage on Gull lake near Minden in the early 80-es. We built it from the ‘forest-up’ as it was a virgin forest before we got it. We spent all of our holidays and weekends for six years to make this ‘home away home’, but when we had twin boys on the way and I asked my wife to stay home to bring the three boys up, we sold our ‘country home’. Interestingly we never felt a loss about it. It was our durability test and it helped to buy our present home. But sometimes the images of the view from the balcony come back. This is ANOTHER one of them.
24″ x 18″ – oil on canvas – 2016 Every early morning i was on the beach waiting for the sun to come up. It is magnificent as our planet turned into the view of the sun giving the impression that the sun is rising. The colors are so beautiful that it is almost trashy but … it is breathtaking. So I made this painting as part of my learning experience.
21″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 (SOLD) I do not really know why I am so preoccupied and concerned about the San Andreas Fault. I just read that geologists predict a big earthquake is coming. So this plate depicts when this earthquake will strike; and I have some very close friends over at that side of the continent…
20″ x 16″ – oil on canvas – 2016 (SOLD)
We were sitting under these magnificent trees, which are called interestingly – Sea Grape tree. Oh yes we had some very good tequila “1800”.
24″ x 48″ – oil on (2) canvas – 2016
This is the way I saw the lighthouse of Peggy’s Cove.
20″ dia – raku fired ceramic – 2016
It is a recurring theme for me. I felt many times like this old man, I had high hopes and at the end… I cannot complain. After 40 years of engineering work, which 33 years of it I did at the University of Toronto, finally I am a sculptor…
49″W x 12″H – hammered copper mural – 2016 (SOLD)
This was kind of a view from our cottage many-many years ago. If you look closer you will find a constellation also in the sky…
21″ x 16″ – raku fired ceramic – 2016 I made another religious piece I call it: The Seed of Western religion…I hope you could relate to it.
20″ x 16″ – oil on canvas – 2016 (SOLD) It was a magnificent sight! The storm went through Cozumel but, we on the shore of the Yucatan peninsula, did not get a drop of it. The sun was just ‘kissing our shore’.
21″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 (SOLD) Many years ago I was holding some clear sand in an oil dram. Sometime I used the sand to cast plaster into it to give some interesting results. (Now you can see into an artistic mind!) Once I’ve opened the dram, in mid April, just look at the sand in it. As I lifted the lid I’ve found the ‘Universe or rather the Milky-way’ at the under side of the lid. Water, that was in the sand, had condensed and frozen at the underside of the lid and made such a beautiful pattern that I could not let it melt away. I run inside into my studio and mixed some plaster and poured over the frozen water droplets on the lid. So I captured the image for future use. (If you look closer you can see the two opening of the oil dram’s, one to dispense the oil, the bigger one or the ‘Earth’ on this plate and the smaller one to let the air coming in as the oil is poured. This is the ‘Moon’ on the plate. You can also see the rim as the lid could be secured to the dram.) I have made a few copies of this ‘wonder’ during the past years…
20″ x 16″ – oil on canvas – 2016 This was the sea grape tree we were ‘sunning’ under. The leafs of the tree had ‘all the greens’ as they were soaking up the heat of the sun. I did not get burned…
20″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 This sketch was created in the late 80es and early 90es. By then I saw the anomalies of Globalization.
So let me outline my thoughts about art and arts-man-ship.
The artist is a person who is a more sensitive individual than the general public and can create a visual, literary, musical product, which the general public cannot do. Any art that the artist creates must be a demonstration of the artist emotional, mental and biological framework. As a result of this, every work is a manifestation of the artist’s life at the time when creation took place. So, in my opinion, art shows figuratively the world the artist live in and acts like a barometer registering the actions of the society. These artistic expressions hover between the two ends of creations which are at one end ‘pure beauty’ and at the other end ‘the message’. Artists should express their feelings, visions, and concerns of their time to show these qualms from a different point of view. I believe a good piece of art is when the audience can extract certain thoughts or feelings from it, which they could use in a beneficial way in their lives. So in my work, specifically in this work, the message is the most important.
20″ x 24″ – oil on canvas – 2016 (SOLD)
As you may have noticed I always have to communicate something in my art. I cannot take the chisel, bend a copper sheet or take the brush without knowing what I would like to say.
Now that I had sold the “Flowers, Fruit & 0.357 Magnum”, I made another painting which may also rise your eyebrows.
One of my dear friends was working for an Italian company as the CEO in Mexico in the mid 90es. He was very successful establishing and running the company; he had some 200 people employed. He was living with his family in one of the ‘safe suburb’ of Mexico City in a gated community.
One day when they went home he had found a ‘standing’ revolver bullet on their dining table. For the first sight this bullet is a very insignificant thing by appearance but has a very serious significance. It is a way to indicate a dead threat in Mexico.
Knowing the meaning of this ‘simple warning’ he had sent his wife and two daughters back to Canada within two days and he gave up his position and left Mexico within a month.
Usually one reads this kind of stories in books but this state of affairs had happened to my friend.
Knowing his story I wanted to show the tranquility of the place with bright color of the wall, the white curtain/table-cloth, the calm sea (which cannot be seen from Mexico City) with the large yellow tulips and the fruits and contrasting this idyllic scene with a single standing bullet which after noticing it become the ‘focal point’ of this painting.
18″ dia, x 5″ (deep) – Raku fired ceramic – 2015
Georgia O’Keeffe is my favorite American painter. I made these flower compositions to honor her outstanding flower paintings she made in the 1920s and early 30s. Some was made in 1998 and using some new raku glaze got re-fired. They turned out much better now then a decade and a half ago.
18″ dia. x 5″ (deep) – Raku fired ceramic – 2015
Georgia O’Keeffe is my favorite American painter. I made these flower compositions to honor her outstanding flower paintings she made in the 1920s and early 30s. Some was made in 1998 and using some new raku glaze got re-fired. They turned out much better now then a decade and a half ago.
18″ dia. x 6″ (deep) x Raku fired ceramic – 2015 Georgia O’Keeffe is my favorite American painter. I made these flower compositions to honor her outstanding flower paintings she made in the 1920s and early 30s. Some was made in 1998 and using some new raku glaze got re-fired. They turned out much better now then a decade and a half ago.
18″ dia. x 6″ (deep) – Raku fired ceramic – 2015 Georgia O’Keeffe is my favorite American painter. I made these flower compositions to honor her outstanding flower paintings she made in the 1920s and early 30s. Some was made in 1998 and using some new raku glaze got re-fired. They turned out much better now then a decade and a half ago.
16″ x 20″ – Oil on canvas – 2015 – SOLD I am not sure if this painting appeals to you. But I wanted to show that not everything is OK at the end of 2015.
We came so far from the caves of Altamira and the recent news is that the WWIII could star at anytime. How could be that we as a species cannot live in harmony.
Way is that some of us think that they are superior, deserve more, need to be served by the rest of us… because they believe God make them ‘special’ … now you know why I cannot belong to any religion.
What is it that wrongly ’wired’ in our brain…
So, what I wanted to show the harmony we could have by the flower (especially that Poinsettia is representing the holiday season) and the fruits … but should we have a gun to protect ourselves when the system stop to function. Riot, looting, food-shortage, and then I have to protect my home and loved ones. How will I (you) do that? Interestingly this painting was sold and ended up in Brazil.
16″H x 20″W – oil on canvas – 2015
16″H x 20″W – oil on canvas – 2015 (SOLD)
20″ x 16″ – Oil on canvas – 2015
16″H x 20″W – oil on canvas – 2015
16″H x 20″W – oil on canvas – 2015
16″H x 20W – oil on canvas – 2015
16″H x 20″W – oil on canvas – 2015 (SOLD)
16″H x 20″W – oil on canvas – 2015
16″W x 19″H – Silvermaple – 2015
Somehow Hemingway’s short novel made a strong impression on me. Its simple way to express a lonely man’s thinking process is just hauntingly beautiful.
I made a similar image last year in ceramic. That work find a home at England. And this one find a home at Trinidad!
21″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2015 ( SOLD) One of these days LA. will have a major earthquake and will split of the continent and the sea will rush in. You may consider that it is a gloomy picture but the colors on this plate really turned out to be outstanding… I hope it will not happen for the sake of my friends…
4″W x 26″H – Willow bark – 2015 (SOLD)
When I was a kid I always liked to listen to old people as they tell their stories. There are so much wisdom could be learned from them. So I got a piece of willow bark as I was thinking of a storyteller and the following sculpture came out of the bark.
And O Yes, that polished stone represents to me the wisdom…
22″W x 18″H – Silver maple – 2015 SOLD
Someone was criticizing the composition of this sculpture. “Moses head is blocked by the tablets” and yes, they do. I agree with it, but my question is; what is more important – the law or the bringer?
Also, I wanted to have the pose when Moses lifts them up and shakes them as he say “THIS IS IT” … follow them!!
This is the same branch that was cut from a 250 years old tree standing at the back of our backyard.
16″ X 20″ – oil on canvas – 2015 SOLD
One of my dear friend, Attila Zalanyi, had a drawing of this situation. I liked the idea that the woman seducing the devil, just as a revenge for the ‘original’ sin’. I made this painting based on his concept. I hope he will not mind and you the viewer will understand my intention… PS.: I made this copper frame specially for this picture.
16″ x 20″ – Oil on canvas – 2015
This is the my first self portrait at age 69
18″ x 10″ x 10″ – Raku fired ceramic – 2015
24″ x 12″ x 8″ – Raku fired ceramic – 2015 (SOLD)
18″ x 6″ (deep) – Raku fired ceramic – 2015
14″ x 52″ – red oak – 2015 SOLD
I was 24 years old in 1971 when I finished my university education and started to work at one of the largest engineering firm in Hungary, at Budapest. It was called the ‘Iparterv’ where there were close to one thousand engineer, draftsmen, accountants, project managers etc. I got to know one of my older engineer colleagues very well, whom I love to talk to. He was an intelligent well rounded individual whom I could converse with on many topics. Ones I asked about 1956 ‘counter revolution’. (As you may notice I used the word ‘counter-revolution’ but at that time in Hungary the 1956 up-riser of the people had to be called ‘counter revolution’. One may end up in jail if that heroic action was called ‘revolution’.)
We were still just 15 years from the time when the Hungarians made the USSR move out their occupying forces from Hungary. Yes, the west, and mainly USA gave false hopes to the Hungarian people that they would support our fledging real democracy, but by now you know it was a convenient lie. As it happens today; with the spreading of ‘democracy’ by people in power in the west.
After two weeks the revolution was crushed and many thousands fled the country to avoid the terror that followed it. The Russian tanks supported ‘communist’ – and I place this word in quotation marks because they were not communist but opportunist traitors – raining down real terror. Many thousands disappeared and never to be seen after the internal police took them from their loved ones. Some were under aged, so the Kadar government kept them in prison until they reached age of 18 and then sentenced them to death. Awful things!!
But that is not what I wanted to say…
George, my aforementioned colleague, told me how he was ‘pulled in’ by the events of the day 1956 October, 23rd.
He was a young engineer working 8AM to 4PM. He did not know what was going on in the city. He has noticed that the radio was playing classical music without any interruption since 2:30PM but besides that, nothing was different. So when he was leaving the office, which was in central Pest, he has seen hundreds of university students exuberantly marching on the streets. They sang national songs, which were prohibited to sing during the ‘communist’ regime and the thing that pulled him in to join the demonstrators were the flags.
“Attila, you could not believe it – seeing those flags without the communist crescents were like magnets. I had goose bumps. I could not resist joining the demonstrators. I went to the radio station to have the 16 points of our demands to be broadcasted. And you may know the first point was – Russian forces must leave Hungary…”
That was the beginning of our quiet discussion over lunch, which lasted quite a while…
Since then this discussion has stayed with me – now forty some odd years later – and I always wanted to make a sculpture of those flags that started the Hungarian revolution.
Now here is the result. I know it may not say too much to you but for a Hungarian, the cut out crescent means the fight like “David against the Goliath”.
Sorry for my long-windedness but this ‘political’ work even now resonates with me to my very core…
8 1/2″ x 26″ – oak – 2015
18″ dia. x 6″ (deep) – Raku fired ceramic – 2015
18″W x 22″H – Silver maple – 2015
I had this piece of wood a few years. It was cut as a side branch from a 250 years old silver maple at the end of our back yard. During the drying process it developed one sizable crack. So I was wondering what to do with it until I remember that when our kids were small in the early 1990s and we were driving up North to some campsite with our pop-up tent trailer all of us were listening and singing along with Leonard Cohen.
Since the first time I heard him I loved Leonard Cohen music, poetry. So this piece of cracked wood brought Leonard’s very strong poem/song the Anthem in to my mind.
Then I just had to carve away the layers to expose him, as I see him.
I hope you recognize him.
19″W x 22″H – Silver maple – 2015 SOLD
This close to 100 year old branch of a 250 years old tree was cut at our backyard three years ago. I just could not burn this magnificent piece of wood. I was thinking of Noah how he felt after completing the ark. The job was done ‘so where is the rain’ as he looks up to the sky or rather to the Almighty. That is how I envisaged his state of mind.
20″ x 12″ x 8″ – Raku fired ceramic – 2015 (SOLD)
16″ x 20″ – Oil on canvas – 2015 This is a reoccurring subject to me. I made a few versions of these two old men whom at the end of the story got what they deserved… they got stoned!
Works created in 2014
14″ x 18″ with 24k gold-leaf edge – Acrylic on Canvas – 2013 -14
Artists, like barometers, have to show time-to-time the place and the situation where they are living. These paintings, which I call ‘Concerned Art’, do precisely that.
You may recall that I was painting the ‘Icons for the 99%’ in 2011. At that time I had hope that something would change but it did not. Democracy does not exist for the common men. It is the tool of a chosen few.
Now, we have an ongoing, persistent problem; there are no jobs.
Young people finish their education or their trades, like tool-and-die making, but cannot find job. Under the false pretend of Globalization all the fine paying jobs were taken away from this continent.
The human suffering due to lost jobs and resulted lost of self-respect is devastating. More and more people slide down to the level where we were in the late 20-es and early 30-es, “Brother, can you spare a dime”.
So I call this sequence of paintings ‘Icons for the jobless’.
I hope you can relate to these works.
14″ x 18″ with 24k gold-leaf edge – Acrylic on Canvas – 2013 -14
Artists, like barometers, have to show time-to-time the place and the situation where they are living. These paintings, which I call ‘Concerned Art’, do precisely that.
You may recall that I was painting the ‘Icons for the 99%’ in 2011. At that time I had hope that something would change but it did not. Democracy does not exist for the common men. It is the tool of a chosen few.
Now, we have an ongoing, persistent problem; there are no jobs.
Young people finish their education or their trades, like tool-and-die making, but cannot find job. Under the false pretend of Globalization all the fine paying jobs were taken away from this continent.
The human suffering due to lost jobs and resulted lost of self-respect is devastating. More and more people slide down to the level where we were in the late 20-es and early 30-es, “Brother, can you spare a dime”.
So I call this sequence of paintings ‘Icons for the jobless’.
I hope you can relate to these works.
14″ x 18″ with 24k gold-leaf edge – Acrylic on Canvas – 2013 -14
Artists, like barometers, have to show time-to-time the place and the situation where they are living. These paintings, which I call ‘Concerned Art’, do precisely that.
You may recall that I was painting the ‘Icons for the 99%’ in 2011. At that time I had hope that something would change but it did not. Democracy does not exist for the common men. It is the tool of a chosen few.
Now, we have an ongoing, persistent problem; there are no jobs.
Young people finish their education or their trades, like tool-and-die making, but cannot find job. Under the false pretend of Globalization all the fine paying jobs were taken away from this continent.
The human suffering due to lost jobs and resulted lost of self-respect is devastating. More and more people slide down to the level where we were in the late 20-es and early 30-es, “Brother, can you spare a dime”.
So I call this sequence of paintings ‘Icons for the jobless’.
I hope you can relate to these works.
14″ x 18″ with 24k gold-leaf edge – Acrylic on Canvas – 2013 -14
Artists, like barometers, have to show time-to-time the place and the situation where they are living. These paintings, which I call ‘Concerned Art’, do precisely that.
You may recall that I was painting the ‘Icons for the 99%’ in 2011. At that time I had hope that something would change but it did not. Democracy does not exist for the common men. It is the tool of a chosen few.
Now, we have an ongoing, persistent problem; there are no jobs.
Young people finish their education or their trades, like tool-and-die making, but cannot find job. Under the false pretend of Globalization all the fine paying jobs were taken away from this continent.
The human suffering due to lost jobs and resulted lost of self-respect is devastating. More and more people slide down to the level where we were in the late 20-es and early 30-es, “Brother, can you spare a dime”.
So I call this sequence of paintings ‘Icons for the jobless’.
I hope you can relate to these works.
14″ x 18″ with 24k gold-leaf edge – Acrylic on Canvas – 2013 -14
Artists, like barometers, have to show time-to-time the place and the situation where they are living. These paintings, which I call ‘Concerned Art’, do precisely that.
You may recall that I was painting the ‘Icons for the 99%’ in 2011. At that time I had hope that something would change but it did not. Democracy does not exist for the common men. It is the tool of a chosen few.
Now, we have an ongoing, persistent problem; there are no jobs.
Young people finish their education or their trades, like tool-and-die making, but cannot find job. Under the false pretend of Globalization all the fine paying jobs were taken away from this continent.
The human suffering due to lost jobs and resulted lost of self-respect is devastating. More and more people slide down to the level where we were in the late 20-es and early 30-es, “Brother, can you spare a dime”.
So I call this sequence of paintings ‘Icons for the jobless’.
I hope you can relate to these works.
14″ x 14″ – raku fired ceramic – 2014 SOLD
14″ x 14″ – raku fired ceramic – 2014 SOLD
14″ x 14″ – raku fired ceramic – 2014 SOLD
I do not know how you will react to this latest work.
I have this idea a few years on my mind; I wanted to make something which is a very human activity, without falling into the trap of pornography.
Now you see the outcome.
The truth of the matter is that last time when we were flying back from a Mexican holiday, at the airport I saw a book that was called ‘The Maya Sutra’. It is/was a play on the Hindu teachings of married life the ‘Kama Sutra’. I did not buy the book but took the idea for the title of my series that I called ‘Dozen ways to love your love’.
So the title of this series now is:
‘CaNa Sutra – Red’
with a subtitle:
‘Dozen ways to love your love’
All these tiles are 11-1/2″ square with a red wood backing.
23″W x 33″H – Hammered copper mural – 2014 SOLD This is the second rendition of the same topic. The one I made last year found a nice home so I did this variation on that same small tree.
19″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2014
As I have mentioned before I have an addiction.
I am obsessed to look up a website everyday.
The past 10+ years I daily look up this magnificent site, which many times give me ideas for new art subjects.
This site is: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
If you have time please look it up, I hope you will like it.
The results of this obsession are a few ceramic plates that were inspired by the website I mentioned above.
This ceramic plate try to capture that very split moment when the Sun gets out of total eclipse. At that moment this view will be seen. Astronomers call it the ‘Diamond Ring’.
I remember when I was a kid back in Hungary we were using a candle to deposit carbon on a piece of flat glass to be able to see the event. Wow it was a long-long time ago.
Approx 20″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2014
The autumn colors are magnificent as the foliage is ending their useful life.
These 20” dia. raku-fired wall hanging plates illustrate some of my old memories I gathered during our camping trips with our kids and when we were building our cottage up north at Gull Lake.
When I was making these plates I almost felt the fresh air blowing from the lake and the aroma of the decaying leaves. It was an interesting sensation. The only thing that was missing is the night sky and all those stars. So to ‘correct’ that I added my favorite constellations like the Big Dipper and Orion.
23″H x 42″W – Hammered copper mural – 2014 I have seen these trees on the Georgian Bay many-many years ago when my dear friend Karl Langenfelt took me for a boat ride to the open bay. It was interesting to see this dead old tree and a young new one shooting for the sky in it shade. I felt a human parallel in this scene. Do you know what I meant? You may see some parallel between this and the some concept called the ‘Sunset’. Sunset has already find a beautiful home, so I made this ‘Sunrise’ version of it. You can see my interpretation of the setting sun – circular hammered lines around the sun – and the rising sun, radiating out to the new day.
23″H x 42″W – Hammered copper mural – 2014 (SOLD) I have seen these trees on the Georgian Bay many-many years ago when my dear friend Karl Langenfelt took me for a boat ride to the open bay. It was interesting to see this dead old tree and a young new one shooting for the sky in it shade. I felt a human parallel in this scene. Do you know what I meant?
12″H x 18″W – raku fired ceramic – 2014
As the old King James translation show:
Then Ionah prayed vnto the Lord his God, out of the fishes belly,
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will looke againe toward thy holy Temple.
But I wil sacrifice vnto thee with the voice of thanksgiuing, I will pay that that I haue vowed: saluation is of the Lord.
12″H x 18″W – raku fired ceramic – 2014
As the old King James translation show:
Now the word of the Lord came vnto Ionah the sonne of Amittai, saying,
Arise, goe to Nineueh that great citie, and cry against it: for their wickednes is come vp before me.
But Ionah rose vp to flee vnto Tarshish, from the presence of the Lord, and went downe to Ioppa, and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he payed the fare thereof, and went downe into it, to goe with them vnto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
12″H x 18″H – raku fired ceramic – 2014
As the King James translation show:
And he prayed vnto the Lord, and sayd, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? Therefore I fledde before vnto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and mercifull, slow to anger, and of great kindnesse, and repentest thee of the euill.
Therefore now, O Lord, Take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die then to liue.
Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?
And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come vp ouer Ionah, that it might be a shadow ouer his head, to deliuer him from his griefe. So Ionah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
But God prepared a worme when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
And God said to Ionah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? and he said, I doe well to be angry, euen vnto death.
12″H x 18″W – raku fired ceramic – 2014
As the King James translation show:
And Ionah began to enter into the citie a dayes iourney, and hee cryed, and said; Yet fourtie dayes, and Niniueh shalbe ouerthrowen.
17″H x 21″W – Raku fired ceramic – 2014 (SOLD) As previously I’ve said, the human characters of the religions, being Greek-Roman or Judeo-Christian, that attracts me. To me, the prophet Jonah is the one I mostly can identify with. I feel that I would have done the same thing … run away from the chore because God will not deliver on his threats.
But how could Jonah knew that he had been used, and so what, he was a prophet, it was in this ‘job description’.
So this image came to me by reading Jonah 3:4 –
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
12″H x 18″W (each) – raku fired ceramic – 2014
I do not know how you will react to this sequence but once more I am back at the prophets.
There were quite a few of them and I do not know if you have a favorite one, but I do have one. My favorite prophet is Jonah.
I have prepared his representation a few times already in ceramics and somehow they always touched many people. It could be because he is the most human prophet.
He does not want to do the chore that he was summoned to do.
Runs away, punished, then he does the chore & finally when he is fully exhausted, the authorities – God – teach him a lesson. Even the poor pumpkin, giving him some shade, had chewed away but a small worm.
Nowadays that I am getting older I’ve learned ‘how-to-roll-with-the-punches’ so I do not quarrel, just do the chore.
23″H x 32″W – Hammered copper mural – 2014 With the boys we were up at the Cypress Lake Campground and Bruce Peninsula National Park and walked many times up to the Bruce trail. The view from the top of the trail is breathtaking. The huge overhangs of the limestones creating a canopy are magnificent. Walking under them is a real adventure.
Also in the far distance you can see the outline of the ‘Flowerpot Island’. Now, that is the view I tried to capture.
If you have not been up there, then put it on your ‘bucket list’.
19″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2014
This plate again comes from memories of the Northern Ontario landscape.
20” dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2014 This wall hanging plates illustrate some of my old memories I gathered during our camping trips with our kids and when we were building our cottage up north at Gull Lake.
21″ dia. – raku fired ceramic- 2014
I have to admit that I have an addiction.
I am obsessed to look up one website everyday.
The past 10+ years I daily look up this magnificent site, which many times gives me ideas for new art subjects.
This site is: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
If you have time please look it up, I hope you will like it.
The results of this obsession are a few ceramic plates that were inspired by the website I mentioned above.
20″ dia. – raku fired ceramic- 2014 SOLD
I have to admit that I have an addiction.
I am obsessed to look up a website every day.
The past 10+ years I daily look up this magnificent site, which many times gives me ideas for new art subjects.
This site is: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
If you have time please look it up, I hope you will like it.
The results of this obsession are a few ceramic plates that were inspired by the website I mentioned above.
14″ dia – raku fired ceramic – 2014 (SOLD)
I have made a raku fired ceramic piece called ‘O Beatrice’ in 1984, yes thirty years ago. O my God!
I was not completely happy with the outcome of the raku firing of that piece, but for many years it was hanging on our wall. As other pieces took over the wall area it was moved out into my studio and dust was collecting on it. I’ve decided that I would re-fire it. It was a great chance that may not make it through the new firing, but I hopped my new method of firing would achieve what I wanted to do thirty years ago. It made through the firing without a crack.
This work shows Dante and his secret love, Beatrice, whom he never even talked to. And see her only twice. There were different standards at that time…
PS.: You may notice that the glaze flow down from his hat to his forehead and his eyelid. That happened thirty years ago. Now it is a very unique piece.
24″W x 42″H – Hammered copper mural – 2014 SOLD I want to make this more figurative copper mural. I used different chemicals to achieve some coloring of the copper sheet. I think this attempt worked out fine. I used silver leafs on the sword and gold leafs on the crosses and the halo. Look up the two details I’ve also posted.
I, who came from a small Hungarian village, never thought that my art will be mounted one day on the pillars of this 200 plus years old Anglican congregation here in Toronto.
I made these raku fired ceramic plates a year ago not knowing what will be their destination. I had to make them; it was an inner call that I had to fulfill.
If you want to see my Stations in downtown Toronto, walk over to the corner of Church and King Street, where you will find the St. James Cathedral.
I, who came from a small Hungarian village, never thought that my art will be mounted one day on the pillars of this 200 plus years old Anglican congregation here in Toronto.
I made these raku fired ceramic plates a year ago not knowing what will be their destination. I had to make them; it was an inner call that I had to fulfill.
If you want to see my Stations in downtown Toronto, walk over to the corner of Church and King Street, where you will find the St. James Cathedral.
I, who came from a small Hungarian village, never thought that my art will be mounted one day on the pillars of this 200 plus years old Anglican congregation here in Toronto.
I made these raku fired ceramic plates a year ago not knowing what will be their destination. I had to make them; it was an inner call that I had to fulfill.
If you want to see my Stations in downtown Toronto, walk over to the corner of Church and King Street, where you will find the St. James Cathedral.
I, who came from a small Hungarian village, never thought that my art will be mounted one day on the pillars of this 200 plus years old Anglican congregation here in Toronto.
I made these raku fired ceramic plates a year ago not knowing what will be their destination. I had to make them; it was an inner call that I had to fulfill.
If you want to see my Stations in downtown Toronto, walk over to the corner of Church and King Street, where you will find the St. James Cathedral.
19″W x 29″H – raku fired ceramic – 2014 I am referring to 40 days rain, the deluge, the one that almost all religion and myth refer to. It is a question if that was a rain or a huge ice chunk that fall into the sea at the south pole which created a tremendous tsunami, but it seems that definitely something catastrophic had happened. What I’m trying to capture the 41st day when the rain had stopped. The sun is coming up. Life could start again. I’ve melted colored glass into the bowl of the sun that is how I got this effect.
It seems that it had resonated with many people as it has fined a home very fast.
Now isn’t that beautiful? The ‘new’ sun is rising above the rainy clouds.
18″ x 22″ – raku fires ceramic – 2014 (SOLD)
I have ventured into the literary field. Do not worry I did not write a book.
But I try to interpret Hemingway’s “The Old Man & the Sea” in clay.
I just reread this short novel and this ceramic plate was the result of it. It is a somewhat three dimensional wall hanging.
Approx. 38″ dia. – white ash – 2014
18″ x 23″ – raku fired ceramic – 2014 (SOLD)
When you look at this wall hanging ceramic mural you will see a different effect of this special finish firing of the raku technique.
On this sculpture I used one, white crackling, glaze only. As you have seen how beautiful the metallic glazes turn out so does the white cracking have this wonderful net of black lines. These lines are made as the cherry-hot (2000F) piece is moved from the kiln to the reduction box. (A metal box that is full with sawdust and has a good metal cover to contain the flames and achieve the reduction.)
When colors are involved it is very important that the piece moved instantly in to the reduction box so oxidization will not affect the outcome of the colors.
When using the white glaze there is nothing to be reduced, but, as the piece cools down in the sawdust the hot carbon dioxide deposit carbon ‘atoms’ onto the terracotta body where the glaze have a hairline crack due to the heat shock as it moved from the kiln into the box. So here is a trade secret; I intentionally move the white glazed piece slowly. Let it cool a bit and have nice even crack on the glaze surface by the time it is placed into the sawdust. I use a long metal fork and kind of waving the hot ceramic like I would fan someone (in a horizontal position).
So the black hairlines are below the glaze and they would stay there forever. (If I would re-fire this piece these carbon lines would burn off and new lines would come into view at different places.)
19″ dia. – raku fired ceramic- 2014
I have to admit that I have an addiction.
I am obsessed to look up a website everyday.
The past 10+ years I daily look up this magnificent site, which many times gives me ideas for new art subjects.
This site is: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
If you have time please look it up, I hope you will like it.
The results of this obsession are a few ceramic plates that were inspired by the website I mentioned above.
Works created in 2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 00 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ -2013
These are the 14 scenes that called ‘Stations of the Cross’. I wanted to express the emotions and feelings by showing only hands and heads. These raku fired ceramic plates are mounted in old cedar wood frames. Please do not ask why I did them! I had to!
Events of Jesus’ last day – 0 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
This is not part of the 14 pieces that make up the ‘Stations of the Cross’ but there where Jesus’ last day started.
Events of Jesus’ last day – 1 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ -2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 10 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
Jesus stripped of his clothes – raku ifred ceramic – 13″W x 13″H – 2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 11 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 12 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 13 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
Taken from the Cross
Events of Jesus’ last day – 14 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 2 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 3 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 4 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 5 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 6 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 7 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 8 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
Events of Jesus’ last day – 9 – raku fired ceramic 14″ x 14″ – 2013
24″ W x 36″ H – Hammered copper mural – 2013 We were up north for a few days at the Cyprus Lake National Park. The beauty of the Bruce Trail at that location is breathtaking.
This tree, I depict on this hammered copper mural, moved me. It could be hundreds of years old, as the centuries reoccurring forest fires could not destroy it. It grows at such unforgiving location that it is ‘untouchable’. Also at the same time the poor nutrition supply and the harsh weather conditions let it grow so slow that a small tree, as mentioned above, could be 200-300-500 years old.
This is the reason I made this mural to commemorate this unparallel resilience. I call it ‘Against all odds’.
24″ W x 36″ H – Hammered copper mural – 2013 We were up north for a few days at the Cyprus Lake National Park. The beauty of the Bruce Trail at that location is breathtaking.
This tree, I depict on this hammered copper mural, moved me. It could be hundreds of years old, as the centuries reoccurring forest fires could not destroy it. It grows at such unforgiving location that it is ‘untouchable’. Also at the same time the poor nutrition supply and the harsh weather conditions let it grow so slow that a small tree, as mentioned above, could be 200-300-500 years old.
This is the reason I made this mural to commemorate this unparallel resilience. I call it ‘Against all odds’.
21″W x 32″ H – Hammered copper mural – 2013
Canadian Willpower – 24″W x 34″H – hammered copper mural – 2013
Some time ago we owed a piece of land up in Halliburton at Gall Lake. As I was building our cottage and get close to nature I saw this young maple growing out of cracks of the Canadian Shield. I was marveling its resilience and full heartedly could associate with it. I made some sketches of it.
Now after thirty years I feel that I made it also on the ‘proverbial Canadian Shield’. We/I came with nothing to this wonderful country and after 40 years of hard work, I am in the situation now that I could make this commemoration of that young maple.
I call the piece ‘Canadian Willpower’ because that it is what we, entering this country, must have.
May be you could say that as I get older I get more sentimental, please forgive me.
Canadian Willpower – 24″W x 34″H – hammered copper mural – 2013
Some time ago we owed a piece of land up in Halliburton at Gall Lake. As I was building our cottage and get close to nature I saw this young maple growing out of cracks of the Canadian Shield. I was marveling its resilience and full heartedly could associate with it. I made some sketches of it.
Now after thirty years I feel that I made it also on the ‘proverbial Canadian Shield’. We/I came with nothing to this wonderful country and after 40 years of hard work, I am in the situation now that I could make this commemoration of that young maple.
I call the piece ‘Canadian Willpower’ because that it is what we, entering this country, must have.
May be you could say that as I get older I get more sentimental, please forgive me.
Crucifixion – 12″ x 12″ raku fired ceramic – 2013, mounted on 21″ x 21″ wood backing. Many friends of mine think that I become very religious, which is not correct. I wanted to express the “Station of the Cross’ seances with only heads, hands or foot to concentrate on the emotional aspect of the event. These plates may not be everybody’s ‘cap of tee’ but I had the inner need to make them.
This was another way to mount these plates. But the simpler wooden frame brings out more the feelings of the expressions.
Sunset at Flowerpot Island – hammered copper mural – 24″H x 52″L – 2013
detail #1
Sunset at Flowerpot Island – hammered copper mural – 24″H x 52″L – 2013
Hammered copper mural – 24″H x 52″L – 2013
detail#2
Hammered copper mural – 24″H x 52″L – 2013
detail#3
Jesus – raku-fired ceramic – 11″W x 17″H – 2013
I wanted to make a depiction of the most forgiving human being. Please do not ask why I am making this type of art!
I JUST HAVE TO!! It is in the inner-sanctity of St. James Cathedral.
13″ x 19″ – raku fired ceramic – 2013 (SOLD)
King Lear – The sad King – 18″ H x 3″ W – Willow bark – 2013
Some twenty years ago I collected some willow tree barks.
The tree, that was an old specimen- I would say 100+ years old – was pulled down by a big storm. I saw the beauty in those tick barks the faces and movements I could carve into them.
I did some of this type of carving back in Europe before I come to Canada. Now that I was cleaned my studio I found these ‘stone dry’ beauties.
So the upcoming winter I will carve some of my favorite subjects into these barks.
This is the first one and I saw the sad face of King Lear in this. It is quite whimsical due to the given outlay of the bark and you need to use your imagination to tune-on to the feeling.
Leaning pine at Killbear PP – hammered copper mural – 2013 – Detail
21 1/2″H x 32″W – Hammered copper mural – 2013 SOLD It has ended up at Hungary.
12″ Dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2013
21″W x 62″L – Hammered copper mural – 2013
21″W x 62″L – Hammered copper mural – 2013
36″ dia. -white ash – 2013
This picture was taken in side lighting to bring out the details of the carving.
I wanted to show the beauty of the female body. This work is based on a sketch I made some 30+ years ago from my dear wife, my love. As I mentioned before this white ash was on our front yard and I could not chop it up for firewood. This is one of the tondos that resulted.
Pedicure – 36″ dia. – white ash – 2013
I wanted to show the beauty of the female body. This work is based on a sketch I made some 30+ years ago from my dear wife, my love. This tree trunk is the same 175 years old white ash from our front yard.
21″H x 72″L – Hammered copper mural – 2013
21″H x 72″L – Hammered copper mural – 2013
21″H x 72″L – Hammered copper mural – 2013
Susanna & the Elders – raku fired ceramic – 14″W x 14″H – 2013
This small ceramic mural depicts one of Solomon’s wise decision. The two old men will get what they asking for Susanna. They will get stoned.
33″ H x 5″ W – Willow bark – 2013
This willow bark carving is also re King Lear as he is lamenting to his Harlequin. Please do not think that I am an expert of Shakespeare, not at all, but the story of King Lear has a great deal of human elements.
As you may notice I have to go along the growth of the bark so you have to use your imagination to fully appreciate the picture. I have quite few of these barks so during the winter I can carve indoor.
Approx. 36″ dia – white ash – 2013
Originally I had Galileo Galilei in my mind as he faced the Grand Inquisition for his heretic thinking in 1633. Under tremendous pressure he withdraws his statement – the Earth moves around the Sun – and then he was kept in house arrest for the rest of his life. An anecdote say that on his death bed he sad: Eppur si muove – And yet it moves.
At the end my depiction was not Galileo but a state of mind when one knows his correctness but to save himself he has to lie. The place where I come from, a statement that was made as one has his fingers crossed meant that it was not the truth – it was a lie. That is the essence of my carving.
Part of a 36″dia. white ash carving – detail #1
– Detail #2
These crossed fingers are the essence of this message of this carving. If you are forced to lie, cross your fingers.
Works created in 2012
Part of an approx. 36″ dia. – 175 years old white ash
This is Melchior, the Persion King, bringing Gold to Jesus.
Part of an approx. 36″ dia. – 175 years old white ash
This is Gaspar, the Indian King, bringing Myrrh to Jesus.
Part of an approx. 36″ dia. – 175 years old white ash
This is Balthazar, the Arabian King, bringing Frankincencse to Jesus.
Approx. 36″ dia. – 175 years old white ash with 24 carat gold on the star.
I think the sculpture say everything I wanted to communicate.
Jesus was born as a Jew, so in my thinking the ‘Star of Bethlehem’ had to be a David star.
This old tree was on our front lawn. But as it get to it age with the help of carpenter ants, we had to remove it. I could not cut it up for firewood. So I painted the ends of the fresh cuts and stored it for four years, to let it dry very slowly. Now I have close to 25 slices of this beautiful wood.
You can see I have ‘carved-out’ a big project for the rest of my life.
18″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2023
18″ dia. Raku fired ceramic – 2023
22″H x 32″ W x 3″D – Oxidation Ceramic – 1979/2012
I made this work in the late 70es identifying the major step in evolution; the appearance of the cell. Until then there were no ‘real’ organisms. The wall of the cell made it possible to start the evolutionary race.
I installed a 1/2″ thick clear glass that separates the first cell – in 24 k gold – and the sudden growth that started after.
22″H x 32″ W x 3″D – Oxidation Ceramic – 1979/2012
I made this work in the late 70es identifying the major step in evolution; the appearance of the cell. Until then there were no ‘real’ organisms. The wall of the cell made it possible to start the evolutionary race.
I installed a 1/2″ thick clear glass that separates the first cell – in 24 k gold – and the sudden growth that started after.
The 1/2″ glass is vibrant in the sunshine and the ‘First Cell’ has some shade of the glass on.
24″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2012
I made this plate for one of my friend for his birthday.
24″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2012
24″ dia. – Raku fired ceramic – 2012
21″H x 33″W – Hammered copper mural – 2012
The beauty of Georgian Bay and the tormented lines of the pine trees are mesmerizing me. So, I have decided to make a series out of those sceneries. This was the fourth one of five hammered copper landscape.
I have inlay-ed the sun with 24k gold leafs and the moon with pure silver.
21″H x 33″W – Hammered copper mural – 2012
The beauty of Georgian Bay and the tormented lines of the pine trees are mesmerizing me. So, I have decided to make a series out of those sceneries. This was the fourth one of five hammered copper landscape.
I have inlay-ed the sun with 24k gold leafs and the moon with pure silver.
21″H x 33″W – Hammered copper mural – 2012
The beauty of Georgian Bay and the tormented lines of the pine trees are mesmerizing me. So, I have decided to make a series out of those sceneries. This was the fifth one of five hammered copper landscape.
I have inlay-ed the Moon with pure silver. I have painted these three trees many many times. Now this work is at LA.
21″H x 33″W – Hammered copper mural – 2012
The beauty of Georgian Bay and the tormented lines of the pine trees are mesmerizing me. So, I have decided to make a series out of those sceneries. This was the third one of five hammered copper landscape.
I have inlay-ed the sun with 24k gold leafs and the moon with pure silver.
21″H x 33″W – Hammered copper mural – 2012
The beauty of Georgian Bay and the tormented lines of the pine trees are mesmerizing me. So, I have decided to make a series out of those sceneries. This was the third one of five hammered copper landscape.
I have inlay-ed the sun with 24k gold leafs and the moon with pure silver.
21″H x 33″W – Hammered copper mural – 2012
The beauty of Georgian Bay and the tormented lines of the pine trees are mesmerizing me. So, I have decided to make a series out of those sceneries. This was the second one of five hammered copper landscape.
I have inlay-ed the sun with 24k gold leafs and the moon with pure silver.
21″H x 33″W – Hammered copper mural – 2012
The beauty of Georgian Bay and the tormented lines of the pine trees are mesmerizing me. So, I have decided to make a series out of those sceneries. This was the second one of five hammered copper landscape.
I have inlay-ed the sun with 24k gold leafs and the moon with pure silver.
21″H x 33″W – Hammered copper mural – 2012
The beauty of Georgian Bay and the tormented lines of the pine trees are mesmerizing me. So, I have decided to make a series out of those sceneries. This was the second one of five hammered copper landscape.
I have inlay-ed the sun with 24k gold leafs and the moon with pure silver.
21″H x 33″W – Hammered copper mural – 2012 SOLD
The beauty of Georgian Bay and the tormented lines of the pain trees are mesmerizing me. So, I have decided to make a series out of those sceneries. This was the first one of five hammered copper landscape.
Approximately 36″ dia. white ash – 2012
This is the same 175 years old three that was standing on our front-yard and due to its illness it had to be cut. Now I have 20 to 25 of these ‘tondros’ (round paintings or sculptures) to be carved. For the next few years I need to ‘bend’ all my sculptures into this shape.
With this carving I wanted to show the beauty of the female body.
Approximately 36″ dia. white ash – 2012
This is the same 175 years old three that was standing on our front-yard and due to its illness it had to be cut. Now I have 20 to 25 of these ‘tondos’ (round paintings or sculptures) to be carved. For the next few years I need to ‘bend’ all my sculptures into this shape.
With this carving I wanted to show the beauty of the female body. Also, I had in my mind Leda, the queen of Sparta, waiting for Zeus to continue their affair.
33” H x 23” W – basswood – 2012
I had this piece of wood in my studio in the last thirty years. I did not know what to carve into it. Now that I am finally a full time sculptor this was my first work I did. The trapezoid form of the board gave the idea of a mother & child as she is feeding the little one. The glories just come by as I was working, so really it is “The Mother & Child”, if you know what I mean.
24″ x 51″ – hammered copper mural – 2016
We were visiting a dear friend at Halifax. It was an unforgettable week due to the host and her friends. One of our site visits was the famous Peggy’s Cove. It is a very interesting view. Nothing else but rocks-on-top-of-rocks. If you were there you know what I am talking about. But … it has its beauty!
At first view I said to myself … this is it? … but then its grandiosity grew on me. Now this is my interpretation of the place and certainly I‘ve combined a few views to have this picture.
It was a very beautiful sunny day and I ‘almost saw’ the outlines of the British island…
I covered the water and the sun with pure silver and aged it with some sulfur; that is the reason why the sea and the settling sun have this golden shine.
27″L x 10″H x 8″W – Raku fired ceramic – 2012
This is a life size raven. Many culture kept the raven in a highest esteem.
One of the Hungarian lord had the raven in his family coat-of-arms. It was Hunyadi Janos.
27″L x 10″H x 8″W – Raku fired ceramic – 2012
This is a life size raven. Many culture kept the raven in a highest esteem.
One of the Hungarian lord had the raven in his family coat-of-arms. It was Hunyadi Janos.
20″H x 63″W x 2″D – Copper mural – 2012
This is the same as the other one but the sun is shining on it!
20″H x 63″W x 2″D – Hammered copper mural – 2012 – Detail
20″H x 63″W x 2″D – Hammered copper mural – 2012 – detail
21″H x 60″L – Hammered copper mural – 2012
The tranquility of the setting sun is amazing. But having been in a boat and paddling into this beauty is a different experience. To find the cottage latter on in the dark was also tricky.
21″H x 60″L – Hammered copper mural – 2012
The tranquility of the setting sun is amazing. But having been in a boat and paddling into this beauty is a different experience. To find the cottage latter on in the dark was also tricky.
10″W x 10″H x 4” D – Raku fired ceramic – 2012
It seems that I am a very religious man. But that is not correct. I am not attending any kind of religious sermons due to the fact that I cannot take the dogma that is required by all the Judeo-Christian-Muslim fate. I walk my own path, responsible for my own action, not getting or asking any absolution for any of my act.
But at the same time, I want to express the human elements of some of the account. So I made the ‘Stations of the Cross’ to show, only with the hands and faces, of the last journey of the Jesus.
Approx. 36″ dia. – White ash wood carving – 2012
This 175 years old white ash had to be cut due to carpenter ants. It was dieing.
I did not have the hart just make fire wood out of this beautiful tree. So after it was cut I hold back two seven feet chunks of the trunks and waxed the end of the trunks to ensure slow drying.
Three years later, now, I have twenty-plus 36″ dia. ‘tondros’ to be carved. This was the second in the line. The Astronomers was the first one.
I hope you agree with me it would have been a ‘crime’ to burn it.
