(a girl from Budapest, rather from Buda)
She started at her teenage to learn drawing from Pató Róza, who was a well known sculptor and coin designer.
During her high school years at the Eötvös József high school she participated in the Ferenc István group sessions, then attended the Dési Huber art school.
She started to learn Italian, and in 1996 successfully admitted to the „Accademia di Belle Art” college. After her graduation (3 years) she continued her studies in Budapest at the University of Fine Arts, with Gaál József, lead professor.
The Mediterranean landscape and the vivid colors gets admired by most of the artists, as well herself.
In Hungary, sailing with her father on Lake Balaton influenced her art work mostly. The sailboats graceful shape, the rapid motion of the boats and the waves.
A serious accident in 2oo4 prevented her from art work, it took time to recover emotionally.
The artist colony’s bohemia, drinkings, and private life dramas made her character stronger, as a result she started to paint with heavier hard lines and colors.
Her „Money and Blood” and „Opium Intoxication in New York” titled exhibits were an escape to the fantasy world, BUT populated with real dramatic characters and bright Mediterranean colors dominated her art pieces.
„Christmas Delight and Fragrance” inspired an exhibition too.
Flying birds, dogs’ waggishness, trees, flowers’ marvelousness, rain versus sunshine, breese on the lake, spas dew, waves charm, Christmas delight, all influenced her artistry.
Her daily walking on the streets with long unhurried steps, wearing a short, a backpack on, in her mind with endless thoughts and pictures makes her special.
A poet friend described her as an honest artist without any mannerism, with an individual vision: „No matter what she paints, the colors live separate life, they tune up and they lead captive the spectators.”
After much adversity, nowadays her artistry is more relaxed and intimate.
Gulácsi áttetszősége, Egry természetszeretete, a hullámvonalba írt neve,
szignója, Koltai Emese, így együtt utánozhatatlanná teszik, amit alkot.