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Isabela's childhood was immersed in the byzantine heritage of the Romanian Orthodox Church where her maternal grandfather was a deacon. From there she moved to Paris, France, her husband’s country and the world capital of fine arts, where she further educated and shaped her taste, ideas and techniques. It is also in Paris that she learned about the esoteric art of Rudolph Steiner, and traveled to Switzerland to see it first hand. From this, in 1980, sprang the visionary painting series that has continued until today in parallel with her abstract art work.

Isabela continued her fine arts training in California acquiring additional tools to express and nurture the “artist within”. She began a period of abstract work in which the focus was to allow color and movement to give shape to the invisible inner world.

Expressing the subconscious mind? Yes, but not only; the inner universe functions as a mirror of the macrocosm. Painting cosmic “landscapes” and energy fields in vibrating, bold colors, while observing the movement of feelings, has developed into a technique Isabela calls the “free stroke technique”. In the process one tunes-in and allows the “artist within” to take over the creative process. This new partner opens the door to the subconscious and spiritual world: galaxies, underwater landscapes, emotional energy fields or the presence of a supernatural being, they all seek visibility through the magic wand of a spontaneous brush stroke dipped in bold colors.