Greetings from Fairbanks!I used to live a normal life, but now. . .

Hi! My name is Piroska, but most call me Perry. While I don't think of myself as an adventurer, my 2007 move to Fairbanks has me a further out on the edge than I had planned. I was raised in a small cabin in the woods on a mountain in Communist Hungary. No water, wood heat. . . Since then, I've traveled the world and have worked in Cypress, New York, and California. And now I find myself back in the woods again. The circle was completed when I found myself living in a small cabin with no water as my husband and I worked to finish the house. Now that it's done, I spend my time gardening, playing harp, and building my faux painting business.


What am I doing now?Searching for peace and painting spaces . . .

My life is filled with many things, and I try to do all of them in artful ways. In 1985 I received my art degree from a college in Szeged, Hungary (now Kepzomuveszeti Foiskola in Budapest). My hobbies include cross stitching, watercolor, faux painting, interior murals, interior design, and gardening and landscaping. See my portfolio for examples.

My hobbies also include photography. I took all of the photos on this series of websites. I've reduced the quality for the web of course because I don't want you to wait forever as the images load. Anyway, check out the slide shows (in the left hand menu) for a photo gallery of my trips to Chitina, the Gulkana River, and others places around Alaska and the lower 48.

Faux and other Painting

I've just recently discovered faux painting and am excited about the opportunities. It's amazing what one can do with paint: a small amount of color and design can completely transform an room or space.

One of the challenging aspects of faux design is that the possibilities are infinite. There is no set of skills and techniques you can learn and thereby call yourself an expert. Each room is unique and each job requires integrating all the elements of the room into a well designed whole: from the carpet, to the trim, fixtures, and furniture--everything should be considered before any paint finds its way to the walls. See www.fairbanksfaux.com for more information. Feel free to call 455-4779 if you would like to talk about the possibilities of one of your spaces.

Watercolor

I first started learning to paint during my high school years. Landscapes are my favorite subject because I like nature . . . I grew up surrounded by a beautiful forest and had a happy childhood even though we were poor. I love the ocean as well, and you'll always find trees or water in my paintings. I guess as a scorpio (a water sign), the water element can never be far from my mind. See my portfolio for examples.


Interior Decorating

I've always enjoyed interior design and decorating and have a habit of decorating my spaces as well as those of my friends and my employeers when they need advice. I like to read about this kind of art and am seriously considering enrolling in an interior design school. We'll see. . .

Exterior Decorating

Faux landscaping? Well, I guess there is such a thing. However, I use real rocks and timbers and plants to create the canvas for house and cabins. It's also amazing how many natural wild flowers seem to pop out of nowhere in the summer.

I bring to my gardening the same eye for design and aesthetics that I bring to interiors. I love plants. I try to make sure they are happy by giving them a nice place to live. In return, they give me a nice place to live. I've gardened in several states and countries, so I've had some experience in diverse climates. I'm looking forward to making some beautiful "faux exteriors" in the coming months and years.

The Wild and the Wierd

Ok. . . I'll paint anything. This is our famous outhouse that even the borough appraiser took a picture of. I hope our taxes don't skyrocket!

Ben and I are also building a bed and breakfast called Moosepath Bed and Breakfast. Unfortunately, my husband is a bonehead when it comes to color, so I tried to save this cabin from his dooming paintbrush. For more information, go to www.moosepathbandb.com.





The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur. -- Aristotle

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. -- Auguste Rodin

What is art? Nature concentrated. -- Honore de Balzac