Dana Simion

Dana Simion is a Romanian painter. Her art captivates primarily through expressiveness. Her creations can be split into abstract paintings and the return to the study of the human figure, of nature, of different forms and elements of reality, combining the real and the unreal.

“The basis of my paintings is composed of 3 elements: beauty, expresiveness and color. I believe that an artist’s freedom consists of his authenticity. If you are able to be authentic, the rest will fall into place.”

The artist describes herself as a free sprit, who emphasises on authenticity, avoiding the tempation of being fashionable or imitating patterns.
She has experimented with combining various environments, techniques and different material: coal, combined with oil and acrylic and textile collage, paper collage or cardboard, slagmetal, cermamics, wood, metal, valorization in coal next to juxtaposition of color in knife, brush or color layed with the hand or cloth.

In her abstract paintings, the painter emphasizes on structures, combining various materials and artistic techniques, creating various effects and basreliefs. By contrast, in studies of the human figure, of the character’s glance, of their expresiveness and of nature, Dana focuses only on painting, creating the sketch directly in color.