Vlada Popescu

ARTIST STATEMENT

My paintings are inspired by the beauty of the present moment and how its simplicity can gain significance when we pay more attention to it. I aim to explore how emotional attachment to moments, places and people can shape our memories of them. I invite the viewer to see the world through my eyes, whilst leaving space for their personal interpretations and emotions.

My interest in light, movement, colour and contrast is crucial to my atmospheric cityscapes. I have a curiosity to unearth the complex stories these scenes hold. The image of an empty street set in a typically busy city suggests the potential loneliness of its inhabitants, with the lights symbolizing human presence.

Despite the isolation and separation present in my figurative scenes, I intend to capture the dreamlike feeling of the often-overlooked mundane aspects of life that shape its beauty. I choose to romanticize them further through my painting process. Oil painting enables me to explore mark making and blending effects useful for rendering the contrast between the detailed clear image of the real world and the abstracted, fragmented scene stored in our visual memory.