[2] She trained for six years with scholarships at what is now the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, studying under Elek Lux, Béla Ohmann, and József Reményi.

[3] After German forces occupied Hungary in March 1944, her family decided to flee west to Helmstedt, Germany,[2] fearing the Soviet advance from the east.

She also did odd jobs such as "painting designs on children's furniture, cleaning artists' studios and making Christmas decorations for friends and gift shops.

I welcome these odds - my medals are the result of a good fight against them - and at the end at least I can look back on a bravely fought battle.After getting married, de Pédery-Hunt spent the next seven years using her free time to work on her sculpting on her kitchen table.

Jarvis, who was also a trained professional sculptor, saw the merit of de Pédery-Hunt's piece and played a major role in its purchase for a permanent collection at NGC.

She created a cast bronze medallion that was ten centimetres in diameter in 1961; on it, she was able to portray music, dance, literature, painting, and sculpture.

Additionally, she created a series of small bronze sculptures commemorating Canadian heroes and heroines, and many other works which can be viewed in collections in over 70 major museums worldwide.

[2] Besides the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, various Royal Canadian Mint gold coins with a face value of one hundred dollars were designed.