ZSAKLIN MIKLOS

Zsaklin Miklos was born in Hungary, in 1975. Zsaklin spent her formative years in Budapest, responding to the specific visual character of that city by initially exploring abstraction through the deployment of vivid colours, creating compositions which were both informed and intuitive.

During this period, she made some geometrical abstract paintings using oil, acrylic and, more often, watercolour or gouache paints, where she began each work with no preconceived vision of the painting's final state.  She spontaneously composed her forms. Zsaklin’s influences consolidated around artists who principally explored form and feeling.

From 2013, by painting permanently in the Seychelles, her work progresses from 'pure' abstractions to portraits and figurative, stylised interpretations of place. Lately, she uses acrylic paint for her creations.
The art movements which have affected her art perception are minimalism, colour field painting and abstract expressionism, specifically the work of Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko and Joann Gedney.  She was also very aware of post-painterly abstraction and hard-edge painting, where geometrical and abstract perceptions and the subtle deployment of colour made a great impact on her work (the art of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still and Sonia Delaunay in particular).

From 2013, Zsaklin has had solo and group exhibitions in Seychelles and Abu Dhabi.