Dona Thelia

My name is Dona. I am a painter from Romania, and for as long as I can remember, art has been my most honest form of self-expression.

I began my formal journey into art at the age of ten, when I entered the Fine Arts High School in Bacău. Since then, painting has become not just a discipline, but a language, one through which I try to translate the silence within me.

I work primarily with oil on canvas, drawn instinctively to the human figure. Faces, hands, stillness, tension, these fragments of the body hold, for me, a quiet truth. Each painting is an offering: a reflection of something I carry, and a hope that someone else might see themselves in it.

In 2025, I held my first solo exhibition at Palatul Bragadiru in Bucharest. That moment felt less like a presentation and more like a confession shared in stillness.

I don’t paint answers. I paint presence, emotion, and the invisible threads between souls.

2025 – BA in Fine Arts, University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2019 – High School Diploma, George Apostu High School of Arts, Bacău, Romania

2025 – Solo Exhibition, Palatul Bragadiru, Bucharest, Romania