"Whatever is good in the land of our mother country, everything that is good, that often brings us down and often gives us wings, these all come from our parents. These roots are the source of life. The springs grew on hard labour. I use my mother's words, who managed to preserve the tiny bit of the land she inherited:
Do not let that "Little everything" get lost, that is our home...To keep light with the memory of my mother, my father, my siblings. we are at home, even when we are far away from it".
(Arany Bazsonyi)

Arany Bazsonyi was born on 13 January 1928 in Gyulaj, in Tolna County. Her parents were peasants. She went to elementary school in the village of her birth, to secondary school in Hőgyész. She then graduated from the Lycée in Kalocsa.

In the period of 1947 to 48 she was a quest student at the graphics faculty of the Fine Art Collage where her professor was Nádor Lajos Varga. She attended the painting faculty of the Collage of Applied Arts in 1948-51. Her masters were Gyula Papp, János Kmetty and Róbert Berény. Her parents were declared kulak, and she was forced to leave collage during her fourth year at collage. Róbert Berényi defended her, in vain.

Arany Bazsonyi gained her training collage degree in Dombóvár, in 1952. She worked as a teacher in Pusztahencse and Dunabogdány during the next five years. She married the painter Sándor Vecsési in 1954. Her first solo show was held at the Fényes Adolf Room in Budapest in 1964.

However, Arany Bazsonyi regularly showed at collective exhibitions from the beginning of her career. She also showed in Spain, Canada, England, Switzerland, Lebanon, India, Bulgaria, the Soviet Union, Italy, France, Belgium and Austria. A number of works of art by her are to be seen at the National Gallery, the Tornyai János Museum in Hódmezővásárhely and the Damjanich János Museum in Szolnok.

Arany Bazsonyi bestowed an outstanding collection from her oeuvre to the town of her birth in 2001. The new permanent exhibition at the Simontornya Museum selects from this material.