About

I was born in Brad, Romania. I spent most of my childhood in the remote and picturesque village, Blajeni-Vulcan where my grandparents used to live. This lovely, rural community had a profound effect on what I became and how I developed my connection with beauty and nature and my expression of it through art.

I love to travel and had spent a great deal of time with my family visiting art museums. I had always been drawn to and fascinated by old masters’ paintings and the mystery of how they achieved their brilliance in colours and the shimmering transparencies. When I met the painter Kathy Marlene Bailey I was captivated again by the paintings – the colours, transparencies and the painting method that turned out to be the same as those historic paintings in museums – glaze oils. Kathy’s paintings really moved me – they seemed almost alive. They inspired me to learn this method and return again to my roots in nature painting that I had left behind in Romania. I endeavoured to paint again, this time in this ancient and expressive oil method. As I learned the methods, I delighted in the disclosure of answers to the mysteries that had perplexed me for so long as they unfolded under my own paintbrush. My colours were brilliant with shimmering transparency and my water too danced with life. In this ancient old masters’ technique I had found a genuine expression of deeply felt emotions about nature that has been intrinsic to me since I was a child.

Although I had been in student exhibitions with my glaze oils, this is my first larger painting exhibition as a feature artist.

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