Homage to Matisse- Shy country girl Painting

Gina Ionescu is a contemporary self-taught impressionist landscape and floral painter. She uses acrylic, oil and mixed media, on canvas. Brush and palette knife technique. Bold strokes of color emphasizing natural organic shapes emanate feelings and emotions to viewer. Her passion for art start at an early age and remain alive till today. She never stopped nurture her passion attending workshops and studying the old masters. Impressed by Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Isaac Levitan, also captivated by Yayoi Kusama works and going on. Former fashion designer recently dedicates fulltime to painting. Mixing the joy of creation with happiness of her art lovers gives her a wonderful feeling of accomplishment hard to describe in words. “If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” – Edward Hopper