African Motives by GABRIELA ROMARIA Print

My name is Gabriela Romaria and I was born in Romania. I came in UK as a teacher in 2004. I have been teaching Mathematics and ICT for 8 years. From 2007 I started to paint, write and create my own music. In 2009 I've started also to write a love story, inspired from my own life, which I intend to publish in 2011. For more information please visit my Blog Myspace and TV chanel on Youtube: http://www.myspace.com/gabriela2008madeleine http://www.youtube.com/user/GabrielaRomaria The art, in all its forms, had influenced my whole life. Each of my paintings reflects the feeling I had at a specific moment of time. The great painters who influenced my style are: Klimt, Picasso, V. Van Gogh, the Asian painters who represented Buddha and aboriginal painters from Australia. I like the paintings where the lifes forms arent draw in a rigid and fix way, where you can play with them as you like I like to have the liberty to express myself, to transmit an inside feeling, an idea, a thought As a Mathematics Teacher, I love geometry with its forms, more or less abstract, which, I think, had influenced my style of painting, too... From where I was young, I had a talent for painting, which I had inherited from my dad who used to paint in his free time. During the school time I remember the teacher asking me to give her one of my watercolor painting to can show it to expositions which took place in our town. After 15 years it did happen to become colleague with my own art teacher... She still has my painting and she still exposes it when an even took place in town... I was very surprised and it did make me so happy... When I was student at the Babes Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, at the faculty of Mathematics, I felt the need to feel my spare time with my old passion, painting... So I find out about a school where I can go and study. It was the Popular School of Art from Cluj-Napoca, very famous and had good and enthusiastic teacher, who inspired me more, Mr. Prof. Gavrilas. I was drawing a lot, doing reproductions after the still nature, painting nudes after a real person (which was fun!) and I was studied the History of Art too.