About the Artist

Originally from Romania, Simona studied painting, sculpture and technical drawing (architecture) for eight years at the School of Fine Arts under the Communist regime, exhibiting at local galleries.  Her real passion was architecture, but she pursued an engineering degree at the Institute of Construction in Bucharest, followed by nine years as a surveyor.  Her current works combine an architect’s love of built form with a surveyor’s demand for accuracy and perspective, and with an artist’s eye for colour and design.

When the walls of communism fell, Simona travelled to the USA where, whilst studying for a Master’s Degree in Christian Education and a Doctoral Degree in Social Studies, she also illustrated children’s books.

She returned to post-communist Romania where she discovered orphanages full of neglected children infected with needle-acquired HIV/AIDS.   She became the co-founder and director of a charity which planned to move the children into group homes for a better life.  One of the charity’s sponsors became her husband.  Two years later Simona emigrated to Western Australia, where she continued another cottage care for troubled kids project through Kingsway College.

Simona studied for a Postgraduate Diploma of Science and Information Services from Edith Cowan University which led her to work with the WA Parliamentary Library. Here, Simona discovered the architecture of Parliament House and her passion for architecture and art was re-awakened and after twenty-five years away from her easel, Simona was inspired to pick up her paintbrush again.

Simona was commissioned different artwork and portraits and also drew several portraits as departure gifts to inspirational staff who served in the Parliament for over twenty years.

A number of her artworks, generously gifted by Simona, hang permanently in Parliament House. Simona particularly enjoys using watercolours but she also uses acrylic and oils colours. She does commissioned work in her home studio from her sketches and photos.

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Simona likes to draw the details she sees and to capture the way the colours play between shadow and light on the architectural subjects. She likes to paint the beauty that is within the everyday and the ordinary and she is drawn to each subject in the hope of making and sharing those discoveries.

Fremantle Harbour Life

$700

59 x 42 cm  Framed

Professional handmade frames.  The dimensions are just for painting and not include the mat and frame.

A working day in Fremantle Harbour

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Music by the Fire Pit

$900

40 x 55 cm – Framed

Professional handmade frames.  The dimensions are just for painting and not include the mat and frame.

Category Winner at the Annual Awards Exhibition – Special Category.  Life after Covid……

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Waving Flag at Wave Rock

$650

40cm x 57cm  Framed

Professional handmade frames.  The dimensions are just for painting and not include the mat and frame.

This was an Aboriginal parade of flags at the Wave Rock WA when we travelled toward Esperance. This was a unique moment for us to see them telling their story in front of the Wave Rock.

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Irwin Zoo-Brisbane QLD​

$700

50cm x 39cm   Framed

Professional handmade frames.  The dimensions are just for painting and not include the mat and frame.

I really enjoy painting life reflections…In this painting, I feel like stepping into an interesting virtual world with its own inhabitants which enjoy the trees shadows, the water-lilies and the insects sitting on the surface…close there is a crock who enjoys the both worlds

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Peace at tranquil Elephant Rock

$700

70cm x 35cm  Framed

Professional handmade frames.  The dimensions are just for painting and not include the mat and frame.

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Spectators Watching the Burning Pile

$600

55cm x 40cm  Framed

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Purple Blossom Jacarandas

$600

40cm x 50cm  Framed

Professional handmade frames.  The dimensions are just for painting and not include the mat and frame.

These lovely trumpets of life reminded me every day, passing to and from work that life is beautiful and worth living and inspired me to let go all negativity and embrace the beauty of life in small details.

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Darling Buds of May

$500

​36cm x 51cm    Framed

Professional handmade frames.  The dimensions are just for painting and not include the mat and frame.

Still Life

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