Abstract expression in art is very special. To some it seems nonsense and they ignore it. Some others take time to understand it through learning and training and find to be amazingly rewarded, by the richness they discover. Here is my story: [...]
At 70, I decided to pick up painting as my preferred, sustained creative activity. Knowing that it will be a lot to learn, I made a plan to start with a consistent visual and written documentation, found in the Public Library. [...]
My studio, 2015 My primary concern is not creating beauty, but spontaneously releasing my deeply buried feelings and letting my hand help me to express them. I am convinced that if I would follow my vision steadily to the [...]
MI Gallery 2018 It takes time to understand myself, the inner drive that feeds my passion for painting. I love nature, but painting directly from nature, never satisfied me. I look at nature as an infinite source of imagery, impressing [...]
Today’s colors are much different from those, I knew in my childhood. They can be incredibly special, powerful, My studio 2017 awakening, stimulating, provoking, healing, soothing and elevating our feelings. My emotional response to them proves my sensitive perception of [...]
My studio 2009 Because of some unfavorable circumstances, I never had a studio and always missed it and regretted its absence. I want to plead, to every young artist to think early, from the start of their creative carrier, of [...]
In 2006, at 70s, I started my painting journey and decided to begin it with flowers. Why? Because I love them, I know them, studied them in China as part of Chinese traditional painting curriculum and they seemed to be easy to [...]
This is a guest post by Delia Iliesiu Prvacki. SZ Gallery, Opening, 2018 On the occasion of reviewing the exhibition of Mrs. Lucia Neagu at Suzanne Zahr Gallery on Mercer Island WA, it is important to understand we are looking [...]
Drawing 2012 "I found that doing preliminary detailed sketches for me is not relevant. The joy of painting is to find my way out through changes and adjustments in the process of painting." LN " Willem de Kooning typically, [...]
Reading books, always with a pencil in my hand, like my father did, I use to underline sentences of interest, wanting to remember them, eventually copying them in a note book. In time, as a high schooler, I had a collection of [...]
