Birman Erika – Anna

Acrylic on canvas

I am a 26 year old Hungarian girl with a very colorful view on life. I was born and raised in a small Transylvanian village. My love for art grew year by year and around age 9 I made my first step towards creation, I started to draw.

The surrounding nature was my muse for many years helping me to develop my imagination and see the fairies dancing with the devil in the misty forests of Transylvanian mountains.

My passion became a way of living, during school time I was decorating walls, first for my friend’s houses then more and more people became interested and I was able to decorate lots of bedrooms and living rooms.

When I started University I thought that I needed to grow and I needed to learn more about art, so I started a course of studying different techniques and styles of creating art at the Traditional Art School in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania. I shortly realized that painting with acrylics defines me pretty much. Regarding this I started to paint with acrylics on canvases; abstract and fantasy themes. My main pattern is built on colorful bubbles. For me they mean a lot, in one bubble I can see the beauty of play, the colors of the rainbow and the crystal clear fragility of life. Because of this bubbles can be found in almost all of my works. 

In my country I have held local exhibitions sharing my views upon art with everybody, helped new artists to find their way, travelled through half of Europe to hold workshops and widen my imagination and now I’m here in England, in the country of new choices, hoping to develop more and be able to help artists find their way.