Training

Luz Paz

Luz Paz is a globally well-known balloon artist. She shares Gemar’s passion of balloons and has a distinct eye for detail, creating unique and breath-taking designs with style and panache. She is a favourite among celebrities who seek her out to provide extraordinary displays and entertainment for their functions.

Somehow Luz manages to fit all this innovation in around being a wife and mother to three boys and a little girl. Luckily her devoted husband of 14 years, Omar truly believes in his wife’s extraordinary talent and has contributes to her success in every way possible.

Luz was introduced to the Gemar product through Funny Balloons and she has been inspired to teach the art of balloon displays as a result. She has an incredible store in Florida with a huge variety of premium Gemar balloons available to buy in beautiful, unique colours, shapes and sizes.

Gergő Lufis Világa

Gergő born in 1990, comes from Hungary. Although he started his working life as an economist, he quickly realised his passion was in balloon art. In 2010, he learnt how to twist balloons and shortly afterwards became a full-time magician/juggler and balloon twister. He continues to be amazed by the joy he brings to people from his talent.

In 2014 Gergő joined Funny Box, Gemar’s Hungarian distributor. His passion for balloons is on a majestic scale - he made numerous huge balloon structures all across Hungary.

Gergő also works as an entertainer (Line twisting, child parties) and as a clown doctor.

Viktor Polgár

27-year-old Viktor Polgár from Zalaegerszeg in Hungary, has dedicated over 15 years of his life to bringing a smile to those around him through his work, hobby and passion of balloon art. Creating eye-catching balloon figures, sculptures and decorations that have detail as well as extravagance - Viktor’s work is both spectacular and impressive.

He creates over 100 displays every year, supported by his small team from West Hungary. In addition, he loves to share his passion by training others to do the same. He continues to expand his repertoire by continuously developing new creations and pushing boundaries with one intention – to bring a smile to people’s faces.

Irina Lobanova

Irina has been in the balloon art industry for nearly a decade. She started her journey selling balloons but as a regular reader of the Sharm-Art magazine she soon became fascinated with the creative skill of balloon art. One day, the magazine ran a competition and without question, she entered.

She was quickly picked up by the chief editor of the magazine, Tatiana Petrovna Levina, who recognised her natural talent and decided to help Irina get the best opportunities to learn, grow and show the world what she was capable of.

Tatiana pointed her in the direction of specialist festivals around Russia. Irina was both nervous and excited at her first event, she was all alone, but she cherished the opportunity and soon built the team Golden Hands to support her. They are still going strong today and win prizes regularly in festivals across Russia.

In 2012 Irina started teaching balloons art skills and has now taught in more than 14 countries, sharing her love of balloons worldwide. She is the only Russian to have won a prize from the Sharm-Art magazine and we are delighted to have her on our Gemar team as one of our treasured ambassadors.

Irina Gvozdenko

Irina Gvozdenko was Introduced to the world of balloons in 2012 and she hasn't looked back.

Irina Gvozdenko was trained by her namesake, Irina Lobanova. She had a natural talent and feel for balloons and with expert guidance, very quickly developed sophisticated sculpting techniques.

Irina loves working with balloons as her medium and thinks of them just like a painter would his paints.

She became a member of the Golden Hands balloon art team in 2014 and together they participate in national Russian competitions as well as on the International stage. They have proved time and time again that they are world class balloon artists by winning prizes at every event.

Irina Gvozdenko’s creations continuously surprise everyone with their originality and innovation. You can see examples of her work in Russian and foreign magazines as well as international balloon catalogues.

Since 2016 she has been sharing her secrets in workshops and master classes and we are thrilled she has joined us as a Gemar Ambassador.

Olga Baldina

Olga started her balloon career as a seller in the EUT shop. She had previously worked in advertising and when she moved to the marketing department, her fascination with balloons grew.

Her favourite part of her job has always been organising the Moscow festival of balloons, she was enchanted by the magic from the very first event. Gemar is the main sponsor of this annual festival and so it also gave her an opportunity to meet with Gemar masters face to face, this deepened her belief in the Gemar ethos, and she hasn’t looked back.

Now Olga is a leader in her own right, she has a great ability to connect with people, sharing her passion and love of Gemar balloons. Olga tells us she can no longer imagine her life without balloons or Gemar, and we cannot imagine Gemar without her.

Veronika Golubeva

After working with Aerodesign for more than a decade, Veronika learnt a great deal from the world-famous masters there. She was able to exhibit her skills on a world stage by presenting at large scale festivals and exhibitions.

Her organisational skills are phenomenal as she organised the international festival of aero design in Ukraine ODESSA BALLOON FEST, which culminated in a parade of Humorina, a spectacular display of creative innovation.

Proving that people and connection are as important to her as balloon art, Veronika is the founder of the largest chat community of aero designs in Ukraine with nearly 800 participants.

Her business, Veronika Present, is a manufacturer of special equipment and accessories for aero design. Her company is able to organise complex holidays and events for her customers and embraces the joy of balloons at these events whenever possible.

We are very proud to have Veronika on our team and in our family. We look forward to lifting the moment together.