EggArt - Bio of the Artist

Maria Radnoti

Maria Radnoti was born and raised in Hungary. She fled Hungary during the 1956 Revolution and spent a brief time in France before coming to the United States in 1958.

Since childhood, Ms. Radnoti held a fascination for miniature things. She loved to build miniature toys and create miniature villages. Though she was always drawn to art, the heavy hand of communism forced her to study science in school.

Ms. Radnoti came to America as a skilled microbiologist, and while raising her family, she continued work in research. After her children were grown, Ms. Radnoti rededicated herself to her true passion in life, painting. Like Alice in Wonderland, she rediscovered her miniature world through tiny paint brushes. With Rembrandt, Renoir, and Brugel as her guides, she mastered the transformation of the classics of the Grand Masters to the spherical surface of the egg.

As her work began to be recognized in the art community, she was commissioned to transform photographs of a special person or place into the unique 3-D art form of the egg. As she saw her talent producing the centerpiece of a home, she accepted commissions to produce egg art from nothing more than a client's memory. Often this required her to perform independent research to understand the time and place of a client's area of interest in order to produce the realism and detail that are Ms. Radnoti's trademarks.

This propelled her to a fresh dimension to her artwork, historical research based on a new found love of American history. Through extensive research, she has originated paintings of historical battles of the Civil War. Only after pouring over books, pictures and drawings of the era was she able to accurately depict every detail from type of weaponry used to the belt buckles worn.

Ms. Radnoti plans in the near future to paint original works showing scenes from Southern California, home to Ms. Radnoti now for almost 40 years.

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