Biography.

Painter, draughtsman, engraver, Anca Nicolau lives and works in Paris, France. After a master's degree from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Bucharest she pursued a careear as a teacher of fine arts, a stage and costume designer and at the same time participated in many group and solo exhibitions.

Her paintings and drawings are to be found in private collections in U.S.A, Italiy, France, Austria, Greece.

A few words about...

At the edge of the real and the imaginary, under the appearance of forms from reality, these landscapes unveiled a possible world, a space defined only by the mystery of the unknown. The universe revealed by this silent voyage contains more or less familiar shapes:shells, conches, hills, spirals, and symbols of the opposed yet complementary principles such as sky/earth, light/darkness, ascent/descent.But they do not help our eye to recognize the real: on the contrary they undergo a process of metamorphosis which enhances whatever is ambiguous, marvellous and fantastic. The conch continues to reappear as an obssessive shape in visions which do not exhaust the richness of its form, nor reveal all its mysteries.The conch conveys the silent message of a possible world, of its own undefinable and unknowable space. Here is a journey in a world of irreducible strangeness... 

Technique used.

Painting on paper. Mixed media: watercolour, colour pencil, oil pastel.

Painting on canvas: oil painting.