Doina Popescu is a self-taught artist, currently based in Belgium.
She has been awarded international art prizes and she has exhibited in Europe and United States of America. Her works hang in private collections in many countries and are featured by international art catalogues. One of her artworks is part of the permanent collection of the European Art Museum, Denmark.
Nature, human feelings and spirituality are her main sources of inspiration. While her analytical background has its origins in her Mathematics and Communication university studies, her genuine and diversified creativity has grown over years and as of 2016, she expresses visually by colorful creations (most of them 3D organic artworks).
Free spirit, she is particularly fond of Japanese washi paper - acrylic, a combination which allows her to take on the challenge of an unconventional innovative technique: “a new concept of flower/ leaf painting”, where each flower or leaf is a separate painting on burned Japanese paper. The idea became a sensation from the very start, and the viewers appreciated the new proposal with great enthusiasm.
Her creation is about the thrilling nexus with the world outside us…and with the one inside us.
"Inspired by the thoughts and imagery discovered during her meditation sessions, Ms. Doina Popescu’s compositions represent a connection with our inner selves and the outside world. “A painter is an explorer and the art is an enlightening journey leading us to ancestral memories waiting to be discovered,” Ms. Popescu explains. Imagining the world with incandescent reverence, her chimerical compositions embrace a visual fusion of naturalism and fantasy. These harmonious works feature lush attention to color and careful depiction of light. Airy brushwork lends to her works a sense of exuberance, as the subjects seem unencumbered by the conventions of line and form.
Particularly fond of painting abstractions in acrylic, Ms. Popescu’s combination of paint and subject enables boundless possibilities and endless inspiration. Often experimenting with various techniques and materials such as wood, lace, Japanese paper, and gold mica flakes, the artist’s saturated canvas is an immersive representation of nature. By reflecting inner visions and translating them to outer realities, the Romanian born, Belgium based artist reveals the invisible within the visible. Re-contextualizing nature, Doina Popescu’s chromatic palette mirrors the gentleness of the terrain while radiating the warmth and light radiating from within the artist herself." (Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, New York City).
Website: www.doina-popescu.com
E-mail: painting@doina-popescu.com
