I loved writing and painting as a child in communist Romania, but the political and social climate before and after the Revolution of 1989 was not a good emotional and mental space for me to develop as an artist. Later, my art journey began as a response to a debilitating anxiety disorder I’ve been living with for years. At first, painting was a form of relief, but over time, and somewhat unexpectedly, through years of psychotherapy, it became something deeper: an exploration rather than an escape.

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Through my work, I navigate my identity as someone who lived through the brutal and often surreal, absurd realities of a communist totalitarian regime and its legacy, before emigrating to the UK. Working across drawing, painting, and collage, I incorporate both semantic and asemic writing into my visual practice. I often explore contrasts between abstract and representational forms, the personal and the collective, and text and imagery. I’m interested in how these opposites can coexist, overlap, and blur into one another, reflecting the way our inner and outer worlds constantly shift and intertwine. I usually work on paper or unstretched canvas, as I think of my art as a kind of writing.