About me

I am a Romanian painter based in Bucharest. My relationship with painting began in childhood and was deepened through formal training at the National University of Arts Bucharest. For me, painting has never been purely aesthetic — it has always been a way of thinking through what cannot otherwise be said.

My work sits within the current of New Romantic Visionary Landscape — a tradition rooted in the psychologically charged wilderness of German Romanticism, in which landscape has always been a vehicle for inner experience rather than a description of the external world.

The Light Collection emerged from a period of personal loss. Faced with grief, its disorientation, its weight, its strange capacity to eventually lift. I found that landscape could hold what language could not. The result is a series of paintings depicting dark, enclosed valleys of deep water and heavy mountains, and a single source of light that arrives and transforms everything. The darkness is not atmospheric decoration. It is a psychological condition.

That light source is the signature of my work — fragmented, hovering, mosaic-like in form, neither sun nor moon, neither fully figurative nor fully abstract. It is built from layers of paint applied with a palette knife, while the surrounding landscape is rendered in thin, dissolved layers — soft and atmospheric, edges breathing into one another. This contrast of surface is what makes the light feel not just visible, but inevitable.

Because the light refuses definition, each viewer brings their own meaning to it. For some it is sacred. For others it is psychological, cosmic, or simply the persistence of hope. It might be a person, a moment, a belief, or something felt but never named. The paintings do not define it. That is deliberate. It is what makes the work personal to everyone who stands in front of it.

These are not paintings about grief.

They are paintings about what comes after.