Dark Landscape Painting

I am Catherine Varadi. If you are here watching my paintings I think you may be interested in who I am, so I’ll try to introduce myself briefly (what a complicated task – to be brief :) My life is really so special! I was born in a country which does not exist anymore – in the Soviet Union, and what is even more exciting – in its capital, Moscow. Whatever you may think, my life was not terrible at all. I had fantastic family with loving parents and grandparents, friends and good school. Afterwards I studied philology in the best university of the country, in the Moscow Lomonosov University and graduated from it with honors. By the way, beside English, I studied Hungarian and German - and that determined my whole life, as I met my husband in Budapest, Hungary, where I went for undergraduate practice. He is Hungarian and in those years he studied economics in Corvinus University Budapest. We have been together for more than 30 years already, we are in love with each other, have two beautiful and clever sons and a dog who is beautiful and clever just as all other family members (I am joking because I am not only clever and beautiful but also very, very modest :). While living in Budapest, I graduated from the Hungarian Foreign Trade Institute with honors. In the meanwhile together with my husband in 1991 we founded a company LAVECO Limited which has always been successful in company formation and administration all over the world, and I worked as a commercial director of the company for almost three decades. OK, but where does the art start? Why should we watch paintings created by a philologist and an expert in foregn trade, a businesswoman offering company inncorporation all over the world? The exciting part is just about to come, though! Till the age of 52, I never painted. I never took any drawing or art lessons or tutorials. I was an average wife, mother, daughter, dog owner and businesswoman. Oh, yes, I also am a teacher in a church school on Saturdays. So, my life was just tha same as of many-many other people in the world. And then that DAY came. On January 21, 2020, when COVID disaster took its first steps in the world, I started painting. I realized I do not want to work in business any more. I felt there was something inside me that wanted to break out. I knew I can give much more to the world around me than I could being a commercial director.