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Purpose of the workshop:
Continuing work begun at the summer camp, a special and exciting professional project: the ceiling reconstruction of the Vilonya Reformed Church in Veszprém County.
The church's original painted cassettes were made between 1720 and 1728 by painter-carpenters from Révkomárom. During the reconstruction, participants will follow in the footsteps of this unique heritage, recreating the characteristic motifs, formal vocabulary and techniques of 18th-century Hungarian church painting. The style and painting technique may be familiar to those who participated in our earlier camps working on the ceiling reconstruction of the nearby Sóly Reformed Church.
This year's program thus organically connects to earlier work, offering further opportunity to deepen, develop and practically apply the traditions of classical Hungarian furniture and church painting.
The cassettes to be painted are imposing, measuring 135 × 109 cm, which itself presents a serious challenge. The reconstruction requires high-level professional preparation, precision and sound knowledge of 18th-century classical painting techniques.
Participants can therefore expect genuine advanced-level professional work, in which alongside the application of traditional techniques, they will gain experience in large-scale collaborative creation.
Theoretical and practical leader of the workshop: Éva Ament, furniture painter, folk artist
Invited masters of the workshop: Hajnalka Bondár, Attila Fodor, Berta Hublik-Szovics, Emese Kerékgyártó, Ágnes Kinyó, Márta Lőrinczné Hrabovszki, Mária Medvegy, Lászlóné Morva, Orsolya Pleszkán, Ágnes Reiz, Edit Schneiderné Papp, Viola Szécsi, Erzsébet Rágyanszki – all of them advanced furniture painters.
Workshop duration: 45 hours
Registration deadline: 30 September 2026.
Workshop dates: 16–17 February 2027, 20–21 February, 27–28 February.
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