NELUS OANA

Place of birth: Pechea, Galati

Date of birth: 7th July, 1958

Art studies:

• 1980 – student of painter SABO STELIAN from Gherla, Cluj, Romania.
• 1981 – student of painter VASILE POP from Cluj, Romania.
• 1982 – student of painter SIMION MARCULESCU from Galati, Romania.
• 1992 – student of the MOORABBIN COLLEGE OF T.A.F.E. Visual Arts College in Melbourne, Australia.
• 1996 – graduate of the ”MONASH UNIVERSITY” Visual Arts Faculty – ceramics section.

Exhibitions: 

• 1980 – 1987 – participates in solo and group enhibitions in Romania and Germany.
• In 1987 he settles in Melbourne, Australia. From that moment on, he participates insolo and group enhibitions in Australia, Spain, Germany, U.S.A. and Romania.
• 2004 – solo exhibition in Karlsruhe, Germany. Organized by doctor Dana Corina Schmidt.
• 2004 – his works are promoted by by professor Angela Dibello at Agora Gallery in New York.
• September 2007 – solo exhibition at the Museum of Visual Arts of galati, Romania.
• February 2008 – solo exhibition at ”Tonitza” Galleries in Barlad, Romania.
• March 2008 – solo exhibition at ”Carpatica”Arts Hall in Cluj, Romania.
• September 2008 – solo exhibition at ”Artemis” Art Gallery in Targu Mures, Romania.
• October 2009 – solo exhibition atb the Metropolitan Cultural Centre for Youth in Bucharest, Romania.
• November 2010 – solo exhibition at ”Constantin Brancusi” Art Galleries in Bucharest, Romania.
• 2012 – 2019 – The Autumn Salon of Romanian artists from Galati, Romania.
• 2018 – promoted by Bluethumb Online Gallery, Australia.

He has wroks in private and public collections in Europe, Canada, Australia, and America.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Henri Matisse once said “Do I believe in God? Yes, when I work. When I am submissive and modest, I feel myself to be greatly helped by someone who causes me to do things that exceed my capabilities.”

Do I believe in God? Yes, if I believe that he is the creator and he makes possible games of colour in which I actively take part and, as a result, I bring happiness to many people.

My favourite subjects of painting are inspired by nature. My paintings reflect my interaction with nature throughout my life, beginning with my childhood years.

I am possessed by a creative virility impossible to stop. I work with impasto by treating it as the primordial matter from which I create my world. The use of movement and texture reflect my state of mind in that moment.

My work is a fruit of reverie than of direct observation of the visible universe. I am free from classical ways of representation.

My favourite themes, approached in an expressionist manner, sometimes having Van Gogh-ish influences, are my great openings: the sky, the sea, the plains. On the large surfaces I paint on any visual chromatic miracle comes true, any composition becomes possible. But the only “characters” that dwell in my frames, without shapes, are the natural elements: flowers, trees, grass, the link between earth and sky.