Christmas joy Painting

Ala Ilescu is a Canadian artist who works primarily in watercolor. She paints beautiful realistic portraits of women and adds an expressive layer of emotion with color and surrealist elements. She likes to combine the spontaneity of this unpredictable medium with realistic, detailed elements, achieved through a layering technic. Her paintings are mostly inspired by poetry. She likes to illustrate what poets beautifully describe in words. Ala wants her art to evoke feelings and strong reactions, by challenging the mind and intellect on different subjects. In 2021 she published her first book featuring her art, "Explosion of love"; which has already garnered significant praise from the art and poetry community.