About Me

I am Niki, full time homeschooling mama of 2 with over 10 years of experience of learning at home, and over 6 years of experience of teaching from home.

I was born in Hungary just sometime between the Chernobyl disaster and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Great times, free childhood amongst the dry cornfields and concrete blocks, metal playgrounds and smoking people hanging out of windows of 10 story buildings,12 years of ballet.

I was always intrigued by art in some way or another: weed and corn stem dolls became my barbies and I just swung on those metal chain swings. I loved drawing to start with, then I got into art history and loved it.

I was never fond of institutional education, but I did "well", as those people would say who want to tick boxes and see my worksheets. I did A levels in English and Art way before the time was due.

Then I went to an international uni in Szeged. I was signed up to do literature and grammar, philosophy and aesthetics (which I did a bit) but decided to visit the library more to feed my thirst of art and film ( and if you have been there, you may know what else).

And as you may have guessed, I left that too, before I could achieve that piece of paper of acknowledgement: yep, you ticked the boxes.

I am self taught all the way, I learn with experience and instincts. Through my children, through my interest, through you. My studies never end, as I regularly find myself curating my visual library of the latest contemporary artists and revisiting high level literature and non fiction on the histories of art since its existence.

 Yes, I take my work - my passion, very seriously, and I understand that keeping the old values are just as important as keeping up with the times. I'm proud to say that over 6 odd years I haven't repeated the exact same session, and I don't plan on doing it in the future either. And the best part of it all is, that I don't need to, as art is such a versatile subject that it always reinvents itself.