“The Journey” emerged from an intuitive vision rather than a fixed narrative. The works follow two presences, feminine and masculine, moving through a luminous white-gold forest accompanied by their animal spirits: a wolf and a white fox.
The forest becomes a psychological and symbolic space, suspended somewhere between dream and myth. The journey itself is less about destination than transformation, about moving through uncertainty, instinct, intimacy, and silence together.
Alongside the series, I painted Vanaheim - The Destination, a quiet blue island appearing almost like an inner state: still, distant, and serene. Vanaheim it is one of the Nine Worlds in Norse cosmology, serving as the realm of the Vanir, a group of gods associated with fertility, wisdom, nature, and the ability to foresee the future. If the forest represents movement and searching, the island becomes a place of calm recognition, a fragile moment of arrival after wandering through the unknown.
Mediums: Oil painting with gold leaf.
Paintings: Oil on canvas.
Location: ArtYourself Gallery, Bucharest.
Year: 2015
Sigrun, 2015. Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 76 x 101 cm.
Valr, 2015. Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 76 x 101 cm.
Revontulet, 2015. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm.
Fenrir, 2015. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm.
Vanaheim - The Destination, 2015. Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 70 x 50 cm.