Natalya Romanovsky

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European native, Natalya Romanovsky grew up in Moldova, a country located between the Ukraine and Romania. From the time she was 7 years old, Romanovsky knew she would be an artist. That's when her teacher told her mother, Give her brushes and paint. The child will know what to do.

Throughout the years Romanovsky continued to paint and improved as an artist. In 1993 she immigrated from Moldova to the United States and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Graphic Design from Kishinev Art College. Her first three years she lived in the US, Romanovsky, tried her hand at a variety of things. She worked at McDonald's, as a babysitter, for a now-defunct advertising agency, and doing art therapy at a nursing home.

It was when Romanovsky moved to Cleveland that she found her true style: paintings that are a combination of vibrant color, rich texture, movement and abstracted figures that lend dynamic images to her work. She turned her hand to painting on canvas primarily because she needed a new challenge. I was bored doing nothing or the odd jobs that I had, she recalls. I didn't know many people, so I started to get back into myself a little bit more, and I started painting full time in 1996.

A self-proclaimed Night person, Romanovsky begins her workday at around 9 p.m., painting until 3 a.m. or later. I'm addicted to painting and must do it every day. She says. Romanovsky prefers to listen to music while she's painting, preferably New Age. She also finds an escape from her cares by listening to music of all genres, and she uses headphones so she can immerse herself in the experience.

Romanovskys' paintings are a combination of vibrant color, rich texture and movement making them extremely exciting. Her use of the human body in many of her paintings shows her vim and vigor for life and her love of people as the elegant lines used to create them swoop and curve over her canvas. There exists a mysterious and intriguing ambience in every painting reminiscent of something surrealistic leaving the viewer to find a simple meaning of life in each one.

Cleveland, OH

Medium:  Oil

Subjects:  Floral, Figurative, Fish