16 June 2024 A big thank you to journalist Anthea McTiernan from The Irish Times for including my article in the Abroad section of The Irish Times for Bloomsday 2024. “Please be under 20kg!” I silently chant to the Ryanair check-in screen at Dublin Airport. I’m momentarily distracted by Mum theatrically stuffing my son’s backpack …
Thank goodness for Laz’s video editing superpowers… As an artist, it’s hard to show people how much work goes into one painting. People advise me to leave a camera running in the corner of the room, but I really don’t want to do this for many reasons: (a) camera batteries are rarely charged when I …
Thank you to photographer, Dodó Ferenc, for visiting my art exhibition at the Pálinka Ház June 2024. Below is an announcement in the szon.hu newspaper regarding my Colours of Ulysses art project. https://www.szon.hu/helyi-kultura/2024/06/az-ulysses-szinvilaga-a-palinka-hazban
October 2021, City Library Nyíregyháza, Hungary, Curator: Mihalka György From left to right: ‘Travel Guide’ (66x66cm, acrylic on Italian canvas) SOLD 🔴, ‘Sunshine Days are Coming (44x54cm, acrylic on Italian canvas) available here, ‘Soul Explorer’ (70x44cm, acrylic on Italian canvas) SOLD 🔴
I am very grateful to former Ambassador to Ireland Ronan Gargan and his wife, Michelle, for having my first 27 artworks exhibited at their residence in Budapest as part of their 2023 Bloomsday celebrations. It was the first and last time all 27 artworks of Episode 1 of Ulysses (Pages #001 – #027) were exhibited …
Saturday 2nd December 2023 at Hunguest Hotel, Nyíregyháza-Sóstó, Hungary (my new hometown) They’re done! 18 new artworks inspired by pages 28-44 of James Joyce’s book, Ulysses. These 18 pages make up the chapter, or, better known as, Episode II ‘Nestor’. On Saturday 2nd December 2023 I exhibited all 18 abstract artworks at the Hunguest Hotel, …
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Irish radio and television personality, Baz Ashmawy, came to visit us here in Nyíregyháza, Sóstóhegy, as part of his new series, Best Place to Be, for which he travels across Europe meeting Irish people who have uprooted the lives they had in Ireland to make a home elsewhere. Together with my husband László Orosz, we …
I holler over the eardrum-bursting progressive rock music vibrating off what’s left of the walls in the next room. “Isn’t it a bit early in the day?” He shouted back looking at the clock showing noon. “It’s for artwork #022″ I shout back, “Joyce is bangin’ on about red wine 🍷 and I need to …
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Natalie Forrester, Irish Ambassador’s Residence, Budapest, Bloomsday 2023 “You’re mad!” they said. That’s how I knew I was onto a good thing when I announced my 20-year Ulysses project last summer. A big welcome to all of you who are new here 👋 In case I’m new to you, I’m Natalie Forrester, an Irish artist …
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by Natalie Forrester February 13, 2023 The St Brigid’s Day exhibition was a success! I’m still on a high from it! It was a fantastic week in Budapest celebrating creative women, talking about my art, and meeting old and new friends. In case you haven’t read from prvious blog posts, I was invited by the Irish …
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