Laura Ecsiova

Laura Ecsi was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her life is full of travels, discovering new places and life of people who live in various countries. Traveller´s lifestyle since early childhood has made her look at the world with amazement and childish curiosity. Her life was surrounded by creating artworks from the moment she was given her first crayons and a stack of paper. 

Although she finished City University of Bellevue with a Degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, art was so part of her being, that she never stopped painting, drawing, going to different art schools and dreaming of having art as a full-time job. She did not regret graduating with different degree than art – as later it helped her to implement all the knowledge gained in managerial skills in starting and running her art business. It was during maternity leave she started to look for something unique, unusual, but still using natural materials, „coincidence“ led her to encaustic - wax painting. 

It was love at first sight. After gaining basic knowledge as a self-taught encaustic artist through trial and error, she visited various masters in this field like Elizabeth van Uden in Holland and John Buckland from England. The main breakthrough came when Laura studied at Anna-Marie Aigner from Austria, who introduced her to the possibility to work with encaustic in 3D. Since then, Laura´s imagination knew no boundaries it sprang out into infinity. 

Another element that made Laura absolutely fall in love with this technique, is the use of fire. She sees this principal element as creator of light, without which there would not be life. And in her case, there would be no artwork Laura also finds that encaustic is an unbelievably colourful and live art. Her attention was caught by the possibility to change the structures and practically the whole painting endlessly, always getting something new and unexpected. There is always a way to change the shapes, structures, patterns, colours, and the whole artwork into something new. 

Recently, Laura dwelled even more into the possibility of bringing beauty of a moment seen in nature, closer to us in this more hectic and more technical world. She achieved this by combining randomly found stone and wood with encaustic. Inspiration confronts Laura in every step she takes, it is all around her. Laura cannot describe how the creative process starts and goes on until she steps away from the ready painting. She comes to the clean surface and just start painting. It is like meditating, a different state of mind.