Solace Painting

As an artist and researcher I have been exploring questions around gender, identity, migration, displacement, and womanhood. My research interests are: women artists, inherited trauma and memory, art and trauma, twentieth-century art, Central and East European art and design, folk-art, craft, Cold War cultures, Holocaust-and post-Second World War art. My paintings are inspired by tranquility and spiritual freedom. My work is influenced by Balkan and Central/Eastern-European culture, exploring myths, folklore, and primordial female archetypes. I’m concerned with the alienated and isolated individual who lost connection from ‘oneness’ separated from one’s original roots. ------------------------------------------------ Valeria's education started at Art and Design College before moving onto studying a Degree in graphic design. She has a BA (Hon) in Humanities with Art History specialism and an MA in History of Art. Valeria is currently a PhD student at the University of Bristol, researching Hungarian women artists. Valeria has had several exhibitions and participated in art projects nationally and internationally, and has many of her artworks in private collections.