Boats at Playa Celestun Painting

ARTISTIC STATEMENT For me, painting is the opportunity to explore the deep self and to communicate. I am fascinated by shapes and colors, the kaleidoscope of the sky and earth, as well as the living world. I paint things that I like and things that move me. I would be very happy if my paintings offered to the viewer a glimpse of the beauty and emotion that inspired me to make them. SHORT BIO I was born and raised in Craiova, a town in southwest Romania. I have lived in Bucharest since 1980. I started my career as a computer engineer and later assistant professor at Politehnica University, but I changed fields and joined the corporate world in the '90s. I left the corporate world in 2012 and devoted myself to painting. After learning the basics on my own and taking private classes, I studied art at The School of Art and at The National University of Arts in Bucharest (Painting, graduated in 2019). My art can be found in private collections in Romania, France, Italy or United Stated. For more infos, please visit my site and social media pages: - www: http://liviastanciu.strikingly.com/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livia_doina/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Livia.Art.Painting/ ARTISTIC APPROACH I paint those things which stir me. Nature and particularly plant life have always fascinated me. Beauty, harmony, vitality and tenderness abound. They give that primal sense of joy that fills one's entire being, like a sunset or a child's smile. Another main source of inspiration are my travels: places where I've been, thoroughly felt with all my senses, and stored as both memory and emotion. Reliving the emotions through my own photos, I can project onto the canvas a fragment of my journey and a moment in the existence of faraway places and beings. I start from an idea, but the painting transforms as I remember it, and ultimately develops a life of its own.