Erzsébet Udvardi lives and works in her Badacsonytomaj studio, like so many of her predecessors: Géza Mészöly, Antal Ligeti, József Egry, Aurél Bernáth, Miklós Borsos, János Pleidell and László Bartha. This region inspired many fine Hungarian writers and poets as well.


Light and brilliance, presentiment emerging from the bleak darkness and then brightening: Erzsébet Udvardi's pictures don't tell stories, they don't force themselves on the viewers - they prompt them to contemplate.

A primeval element of this painting is water: whether memories of Baja, relatives mistily taking shape, with a steamship sailing away in the distance, - past and present are entwined with each other, in everyone's world. There is the one which has passed, and a glimpse of time long past, "on the fairy lake of past youth".

Erzsébet Udvardi's pictures are narrative: they speak of pure brilliance, which is possible, and of which the source is not us, but the Creator outside us and above us. In these pictures - the Biblically inspired and the secular alike - He is suggested in the source of life and faith. This is a harmonious, colorful and visionary world.

She's not a fashionable painter - she paints her pictures as if commanded to do so by her conscience. And she lives together with the landscape, with Lake Balaton, lives together with Nature, with our world.