Original Art Piece

This abstract painting, titled "Fleeting Moments" (Moments Fugaces), conveys a dynamic interplay of colors and textures, evoking a sense of impermanence and movement. The bold red tones draw the eye to the central focal point, symbolizing passion, intensity, or urgency. Cooler blues surrounding the red balance the composition, offering a calming contrast and suggesting introspection or depth. The white and pale shades create areas of light and openness, representing fleeting clarity or moments of reflection. The transitional hues of pinks and purples blend the bold reds and deep blues, adding softness and subtle complexity. The painting juxtaposes light and dark tones, creating visual tension. The vivid red contrasts sharply with the muted blues and whites, emphasizing the fleeting, almost ephemeral quality of the subject matter. The piece exhibits a mix of smooth, blended areas and rough, textured strokes. The layering adds depth and dimension, enhancing the feeling of movement. Thin black lines crisscross the composition, resembling cracks or fleeting paths, emphasizing the transient theme and lending a sense of raw energy. The swirling composition suggests motion, as if capturing a fleeting moment of chaos or transformation. The red and blue elements appear to flow into one another, creating a sense of interconnectedness. The absence of defined shapes invites the viewer to interpret the work subjectively, allowing for personal connections to the idea of fleeting moments. The title, "Fleeting Moments", combined with the transient brushwork, suggests the transient nature of emotions, memories, or experiences. The interplay of warm and cool tones could symbolize the balance between passion (red) and calmness or reflection (blue). The black lines and scattered red elements imply fragmentation, representing how fleeting moments are often fractured and incomplete. The painting exudes energy through its vivid reds and dynamic lines, yet the softer blues and whites introduce a contemplative, almost melancholic undertone. The abstract nature invites various emotional responses, from excitement to nostalgia, depending on the viewer’s perspective. This piece is a masterful exploration of transience, combining vibrant colors, energetic strokes, and layered textures to evoke a sense of impermanence and movement. It invites viewers to reflect on their own fleeting moments, offering an emotional and visual journey.

Maggie Romanovici was born in Romania, during the Communist dictatorship. In a closed society, there was an attraction to the arts and culture in general, as the only escape in life. Maggie showed a natural inclination towards drawing and colored pencils early on. In elementary school, teachers noticed that Maggie was very talented at drawing. Her father, also having had a penchant for painting, exerted an important influence on the artistic development of his daughter.
Maggie began to attend art school. Here, for six years, she formally learned drawing, watercolor, oil painting, and whatever else the school curriculum contained. Then she continued to hone her skills in private lessons with consecrated local painters. Her first participation in an exhibition was at age 12, with an oil painting. Others followed.
Because the Communist regime in her native Romania did not favor an artistic career, Maggie chose to teach languages. The contact with art never left her, but it was just later in her life and in Canada that Maggie returned to painting full time.
The first years are dedicated to figurative painting, but gradually Maggie discovers the freedom of expression offered by abstract painting. She has continued to take art classes on new techniques and materials to enrich and polish her way of expressing herself. Her curiosity and desire to progress remain constant.
Maggie is a member of several artists associations and is a professional member of RAAV . To date, Maggie has participated in more than 80 exhibitions and her paintings are found in Canada and Europe. She lives in Montreal.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I draw my inspiration from my many life experiences lived in different countries, trips to several others, moments in everyday life, culture and nature.
I am comfortable with oil and acrylic, but I like to dip into watercolor or ink and alcohol. I also favor the mixed media by the introduction of collages, the mixing of mediums, modelling paste, gold, silver, fabrics, etc. I favor the superposition of the color strokes with the spatula, but I also love smooth glazing effects. I produce abstract works in which the ideas, the emotions are seized by the colors and by the movements. The resulting paintings are distinguished by bright, vibrant colors, surprising textures, fluid and dynamic movements, which give a real feast to the eyes and nourish the spirit. The brushstrokes or spatula always give direction and fluidity to the creation, easy to follow by the eye.
For me, painting is very personal. By immersing myself in it, I become increasingly free and self-revealing. The resulting painting is nothing but an exchange between my inner world and the outer one.
Painting is also a journey that begins with feeling, then thought. Shape and color follow with the harmony between texture and gesture, with the subtle balance between light and shadow. I try to make the ordinary extraordinary and I use all the means to reach my goal: I brush, I drip, I sand, I scrape, so that my works present texture, depth, a weaving of colors that give them a unique signature.
As an artist, I honestly hope my artwork calls for the participation of the audience to the same extent as my involvement in it.