Reflections (2020) Painting by Cezara Livia Mihaila

I was born 66 years ago in a small town from north Romania. Abilities in drawing begun to manifest in gymnasium where I was in love with technical drawing and not only. I used to use almost all other classes to draw caricature portraits of teachers and mates until  one of the teachers saw me and call my parents to come to school.After that experience I stopped drawing for many years. In high school I discovered the passion for foreign languages, but I finished studies with a three years diploma in Food Industry. After 21 years of working in this industry as engineer, I had a lot of jobs in Romania (secretary at University from Suceava (U.S.V.),  referent in "Speranta" Home for abandoned children, referent in "A new life- Blijdorp" Home for abandoned children with disabilities), representative Amway and Zepter. At 46 years I decided to change specialty and followed for three years Law at Petre Andrei University in Iasi, without having the diploma. At this time due to family isues (sick husband and child preparing for university) I decided to go  for three months in Italy for work. Those three months becomes ten years, of work as house keeper, house cleaner, then after studying Italian language, secretary for firms and intercultural mediator, I had jobs in these fields at "Ruotalibera teatro"- Cooperativa di servizzi culturali. In the meantime my husband passed away, my son decided to follow University in Bucarest, and I decided to stay for good in Italy. But "The Universe" had other plans for me, so, after a spiritual experience, in three days of spring 2010 I left for good Italy and went back in Romania. In 2016, another spiritual experience,(or meeting a superior human being, the same thing), I began to paint. Like all my life I did nothing else but painting. Without any preparation, study or diploma, without having any idea about what I was doing, the quality, technique, or color theory. I began to paint on paper, pizza boxe, wood, then I bought some stretched canvas and oil colors. Meantime I understood it was not enough the courage to paint, and painting is far more then putting oil on canvas. I toke some private lessons (with Turliu Daniel), but I ended up by using the pasion and ability for foreign languages to learn from internet, from painters with different styles and nationalities: Bob Ross first steps, abstract painting from Nicholas Wilton, realistic painting from Michael James Smith, Marco Costerus-Brasil, and many, many other painters from Italy, France, Spain, England, Russia - I may say any video about painting I could understand or watch on internet. Even now I continu to learn and in time of relaxation I love to see videos about painting. I organised two exhibitions, "Life-The Supreme Master" In National Library Bucarest and "Nature" in I.C. Zbierea Library Suceava, I have a personal site and I continu to injoy painting.

• Nationality: ROMANIA
• Date of birth : 1956
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• Groups: Romanian Contemporary Artists