My work often begins with an image that appears before I have words for it. It might come as a sensation, a certain atmosphere, a dream or a fleeting vision that asks to be translated into form. I try to follow these intuitions and see where they lead, working through painting. This medium becomes another way of approaching the same question: how can something felt but unseen take a visible form?

Sound offers a clue for me. It has no shape, yet it moves through the body and can touch us deeply. I often wonder if painting can work in a similar way — how color, texture, and form might carry emotion and make something intangible gently present. I am drawn to the spaces where inner worlds meet — where memory, grief,intuition, and change shape how we experience reality. Rather than telling clear stories, I try to create situations or atmospheres where viewers might encounter their own feelings or memories. Light, darkness, tension, and silence often appear in the work, reflecting the movement between shadow and illumination that is part of many human experiences.

My process is both intuitive and reflective. Images often emerge instinctively, and only through making do I begin to understand what they might contain. The work grows through a dialogue between us. In this sense, each piece becomes a kind of translation — an attempt to give form to emotional and psychological states that are usually difficult to see.

At its core, my practice is about las profundidades — the depths. Making art allows me to approach what is uncertain, difficult, or hidden. In that process something can shift or open. I think of the work as a way of turning personal experience into a shared space where others might recognize something of their own.

Ileana