Júlia Balassa, painter

I was born in Budapest, 17th October, 1960.
“It was already evident in my childhood, that I have a natural gift for drawing, I am musical and have a liking for dance. After my decoration-painting grammar school education, I became very exited by textile art because of its picturesqueness as well as its special suggestive form. I received my diploma at the Applied Art School in 1967 as textile art student of Csaba Polgár.
I am a human being who is looking for the deeper correlation of the world and want to understand them. I feel strongly attracted to the eternal and transcendent themes in all my work. The main characteristics of my compositions are strong picturesqueness, my love for colours, strict composition, and a sort of “textile” way of seeing things. Beside watercolour paintings, I also make upholstery/goblins. For me the work of art is the way of life and it ennobles the soul.