Nationality Hungarian Known for Wildlife art Role Artist | Name Szabolcs Kokay Education no formal art training | |
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Szabolcs Kokay HR.m4v
Szabolcs Kókay (born February 18, 1976 in Budapest, Hungary), illustrator, wildlife artist and nature painter.
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Life
He was born in 1976 in Budapest, Hungary. He was drawing in all his life, and became interested in nature as a small child. He began drawing animals more seriously only at the age of twenty. During the period between 1996 and 2001 he was working in nature conservation, first in BirdLife Hungary, then on the Washington Convention (CITES). In 2001 he became a full-time wildlife artist and illustrator. He has no formal art training. He was working with acrylics in the early years, but around 2005 he changed to watercolours, gouache and oils. He uses watercolours for looser styled paintings, for field studies and combined with gouache for illustration work. His bigger, more detailed paintings are done in oils. He's regularly working in the field to have first hand references. He regularly takes place on international exhibitions and competition. He has been attended an exhibitor on the Society of Wildlife Artists' annual exhibition in London, and on the Birds in Art exhibition of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum.
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