Nostalgia Painting

Alexandra is a visual artist and an Art Educator based in Nottinghamshire, the UK. Through live workshop events, and online training courses, she helps painters, both amateur and professional alike, to loosen up their painting style, understand art design fundamentals and discover the joy and freedom of painting. She has completed her BA in Fine Art at Bucharest National University of Arts in 2008. Since graduating she has worked as an interior designer for her own company. In 2016 she has decided to live in the UK with her family. Alexandra enjoys painting contemporary landscapes and abstract compositions. As a contemporary landscape artist she is inspired by the beauty of nature. In her paintings, she explores various aesthetic elements, like light, colour, and texture. Additionally, she also uses scenes of nature as a way to tell a story, illustrate an idea, or conceptualise a metaphor. Her work is a celebration of light revealed in rich and vibrant acrylic paint using her personal visual language of fresh and direct brush marks. Her abstract art is a vehicle for endless experimentation and exploration, and is largely inspired by her discoveries of her inner world. She loves the intense, saturated colours and many of her paintings are re-imagined creations of different emotions. She uses vivid colours to excite the imagination, allowing viewers to explore their own experiences. Sometimes, she likes to apply the paint thick, with paint strokes which have an impressionistic feel that makes you want to reach out and touch the canvas. When she paints contemporary landscapes, she wants her paintings to be as alive and vibrant as the scenery that inspired them. Sometimes, her approach is one of simplicity and economy, striving to make every mark count in her earnest pursuance of capturing the poetry of a fleeting effect of light. Every time she is surprised by the process of creation. Also she likes the final result, the creative process she enjoyes the most - free experimentation, free emotions captured in a brush stroke or a shade of colour. She never quite knows what the combination of shapes, colour, texture, line will bring. That is the excitement and the process of making art that she believes leads to creating something unique. Her abstract paintings juxtapose opposing elements: opaque and transparent, organic and geometric, textured and smooth, large and small, dark and light.