Spring Recess Painting

Alina Deutsch was born in Bucharest, Romania and has lived in the United States for the last 52 years, mostly in Westchester County, New York. In addition to being both a successful electrical engineer and a cookbook translator and crossword-book author, she enjoys painting and multi-media crafts. In this, she has been inspired by her mother, Estera Rogers, who died in 2020 at age 99 and has created beautiful oil paintings for many years. Both women have followed in the footsteps of their relative, Klein Hanni, who painted in her native town of Deva, in Transylvania, throughout her life. Alina has been creative for over 40 years but in 2009 she was given a new impetus. She retired from her engineering career and found a new outlet in her art. Suddenly she felt re-energized and confident, as if reconnecting with an old friend, her love of painting. She is now devoting her full-time to creative pursuits. Alina has painted with acrylic on canvas and large straw mats, created large wall-hangings made of felt sewn on canvas, and built various Styrofoam and wire constructions. She is a self-taught artist that has visited major museums around the world, countless art galleries, and artist studios. She has also taken art history classes at Columbia University and State University of New York at Purchase. She was a member of the Katonah Museum Artists' Association and has participated in the May 2010 Open Studio exhibit. She also exhibited "Spring and Fall Colors" at the Mt. Kisco Public Library during June 2010, participated in the group show at the Katonah Public Library during November 2010, had a solo exhibit "Nature's Brilliant Colors" at the Community Lounge of Country Estates & Manors in Katonah, NY during January and February 2011, and at group exhibits at the West University Art Festival in Houston, TX, in October 2014-2019, and the Arts in the Park in Houston, TX in 2025. She considers herself a contemporary impressionist with a strong preference for pointillism. However, she always keeps the figurative undertone even in her abstract pieces. Alina was inspired by the brilliant spring and fall colors of Westchester County, New York, where she lived for 37 years, with its rich foliage and rolling hills, more currently by the Texas Hill Country, as well as the many wonderful places she traveled around the world.