Growing up in a house full of books and painting in a European capital, it was natural to start to paint and draw, and artwork grew in stacks of drawings and painting, drawings and paintings on the walls of our home in Bucharest, Romania, and in many of my parents’ books. My mother was a school teacher and an amateur opera-singer, and my father an engineer who appreciated art and was friends with the well-known Romanian painter Ion Soare. After years of painting and drawing in school, I entered the Art School in Bucharest, studying with the artist Nicolae Iorga. But making a living as a young artist in communist Romania did not seem possible, so after three years of art school I took the entry exams at the University of Bucharest, where I studied psychology. After getting a License in Psychotherapy, I came to the US to a PhD program at Syracuse University.
Art has always been a regular practice, a continuous learning, searching, and experimentation, and in 2000 life changes allowed me to return full time to it. My style and color palette are influenced by the French impressionism as my family lived for a year in the south of France and then have spent there many summers.
I live and paint in Storrs, Connecticut, and my works are in collections in the United States, Romania, France, Germany, U.K., and South Korea. She is represented by Lyme Art Association, Connecticut.
Art has always been a regular practice, a continuous learning, searching, and experimentation, and in 2000 life changes allowed me to return full time to it. My style and color palette are influenced by the French impressionism as my family lived for a year in the south of France and then have spent there many summers.
I live and paint in Storrs, Connecticut, and my works are in collections in the United States, Romania, France, Germany, U.K., and South Korea. She is represented by Lyme Art Association, Connecticut.
STATEMENT
I look to paint the air in between things that holds the shape of seen and unseen, the transient beauty of changing light, the passing hours and seasons, the fragile balance between the wealth of material world and the simplicity of formless. Transient, understated, imperfect things shine for a moment full of life, and encourage the painter and the viewer to connect and share their personal interpretation.
Art is a thread that binds humanity and opens us to appreciate the fragility and uniqueness of our environment with its signs of the past marching away to inevitable passing and the marks of the future yet to take shape. In a world marked by the unraveling of environmental balance and social fabric, art becomes again relevant to heighten our sensitivity and bring us back together to focus again on what is important for us as human beings.
I look to paint the air in between things that holds the shape of seen and unseen, the transient beauty of changing light, the passing hours and seasons, the fragile balance between the wealth of material world and the simplicity of formless. Transient, understated, imperfect things shine for a moment full of life, and encourage the painter and the viewer to connect and share their personal interpretation.
Art is a thread that binds humanity and opens us to appreciate the fragility and uniqueness of our environment with its signs of the past marching away to inevitable passing and the marks of the future yet to take shape. In a world marked by the unraveling of environmental balance and social fabric, art becomes again relevant to heighten our sensitivity and bring us back together to focus again on what is important for us as human beings.