Gyula Siska is a Hungarian artist born in 1958 in the little town of Szamosszeg. He graduated from both the High School for the Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts where he studied painting and restoration. His first job after school was as a restorer of photographs while he took time to more fully develop his education in the classical techniques of painting.

Since then Siska has made a name for himself in Europe and America as a painter, as well as for his expertise in daguerreotypes* [duh-gair-uh-tahyp] (a style of printing photographs) and restoration of old photographs.

His interest in the highly detailed daguerreotypes runs a common thread through his painting style. His highly detailed florals are remi...