Artist Statement
As an artist defined by my own interior world and by technical experiences my work focuses on the aspects of nature: mountains, cliffs, lagoons.
Making a big step from surrealism to expressionism I discovered myself in a new hypostasis, having the power of reaching the "inner rooms" of my mind, soul and body.
My concept of art is related to my everyday life.
My paintings are a mirror you can enter as a viewer or you can be the object you would like to discover as part of you.
The juxtaposition of colour layers creates a unique texture in space and brings forms to the viewer in different ways,
offering new dimensions.The space between line and colour surface vibrates with each brush stroke under the paint softness, using either frottage or carefully applied, transparent or opaque to suggest the "shape" and the "body" of the mirror (suggesting water).
Thin weeds cover the edges and figures, portraits, animal silhouettes reveal themselves as symbols of life. Sea creatures as biomorphic abstractions define another layer creating an emotional contact with the canvas.
Aggressive gestures, pseudo-random movements, otherwise warm, delicate, expressing each moment's beauty appear to be as spontaneous as life itself. The rough texture creates volumes for the "next generation" of colours.
Human bodies are represented in an anamorphic intersection with nature as self-intoxication with light.
The explosion of colours turns to meditation under the clear sky or before the storm when the clouds are thrilled by a morning's beauty or by an evening's quiet immensity.
I create my paintings as a pretext for nature's image as a part of me, an excuse to promote the achievement
of multiple images and ideas. They can be seen as a successive reading based on the study of movements,
gestures, silhouettes, or, alternately, as a scenographer's toolbox to represent the sensorial universe.
The compositions are based on the process of artistic perception but do not represent an extension of life.
They are a metaphor for content, a meditation on time.
Petronella Sirbu - February, 2003
The Beauty of Romance