Éva Ament and her students

Éva Ament is a furniture painter and vocational teacher, originally trained as a graphic designer. She teaches the folk furniture painting syllabus she developed and accredited in several locations in Hungary and Transylvania. Over the space of a decade, she has passed on the basics of the craf to nearly two hundred of her students, some of the most outstanding of whom she is pleased to work with on community projects. In addition to furniture painting, reconstructing the church works of their predecessors is also a favoured area of their work.
For the current exhibition, fve of them joined their master to work on a part of the magnifcent Gogánváralja ceiling, constructed between 1508 and 1520.
Their creative work in community and professional camps is an important, very intensive part of learning their craf, which has also resulted in some larger-scale works: the sacral furniture of the Calvinist church in Pestszen timre, the gallery and its substructure of the church of the Holy Virgin of Fatima in Lökösháza, the ceiling of the Calvinist church in Ceglédbercel, the entire painted sacral furnishings and the ceiling of the sanctuary of the Cal vinist church in Sóly, the ceiling of one of the classrooms at the Zoltán Kallós Foundation with Zabola-inspired fnishes, the complete interior furnishings of the Greek Orthodox chapel in Szigetszentmiklós, the reconstruction of the ceilings of the Calvinist churches in Magyarókerek and Magyarfülpös, and a collective exhibition in Révkomárom of church works covering 21 churches from the 17th and 18th centuries by painters and carpenters from Komárom.
Their painted Slovak interior from Békés County was awarded a Gold Certifcate at the Living Folk Art exhibition in 2021. Te majority of their church ceiling decorations have been certifed as Traditional Masterpieces or Traditional Handcrafed Products.