About the artist and her works
Stela Onut
Born on July 30, 1954, at Resita ,Banat, Romania
Primary studies in plastic art with the professor and painter
Falusi Zoltan (first exhibition at the age of 7 )
Graduate of the section decorative painting (painted furnitures)
of the Fine Arts School
Graduates the courses:
- "The success in management" -
Bukarest – Centre for the Improvement of Management
Performance- The British Council
- "Management in Tourism and Handicrafts" FPIMM-
ANTREP
- "The Whole Village Project- An integrated
approach to cultural heritage conservation in Saxon Transylvania"
- The
Mihai Eminescu Trust, Viscri, Malancrav (Ro) – Londra
(UK), M.E.T., Culture 2000:
Traditional Building Methods
and Materials in the saxon Villages of Transylvania
Bringing Tradition into the 21st Century: Concepts and practices
in surveing historic buildings
Member of Romanian Folk Creator Associations
Presentations and interviews in many journals and magazines
(CASA LUX, IOANA, CASA DE VACANTA, BOLERO, BUSINESS WEEK, ZIARUL
DEDUMINCA - supliment al ZIARULUI FINANCIAR, MISS SPORT, EURO
RURAL)
In the end I must add that my works have been exposed to various
fairs and exhibitions (at the Golden Stag Festival, at Club
Art-a TV show on national television-at the Chamber of Commerce
and Industry-Décor Expo 2003, at the Craftsmen Expo
2004 in Sfantu Gheorghe, at Hotel Marriott in Bucharest and
at the Orizont Galleries in Bucharest, Ideanatale- Udine Itali-november
2004, Paris- June 2005, London-August 2005,Budapest-Hungary,Uppsala-
Sweden) thus enabling my work to be sold to many private collections
in Romania and abroad in countries such as Canada, the USA,
New Zeeland, Australia, Germany, England, Ireland, Spain, Italy,
Greece, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Sweden and
Hungary.
The works
- reconditioned painted old furniture
- repainted old furniture or pint on new furniture
- various
painted wood objects ( households objects, mirror frames
)
- decorative painting on wood or any other material
Personalize your home with long-lasting, decorative, unique
style hand painted things, either traditional or adapted to
modern taste: - reconditioned painted old furniture - repainted
old furniture or pint on new furniture - various painted wood
objects ( households objects, mirror frames ) - decorative
painting on wood or any other material
All my works are made on ancient wood, of a very high quality,
upon which I have designed traditional or medieval motifs coming
from the Balkans and Transylvania.
The old furniture has been reconditioned and repainted, following
as much as possible the original decorative elements. Upon
reconditionong the cracks and the small missing pieces of wood
have been kept, where these little flaws are not an inconvenience,
on the contrary they add charm and authenticity to the piece.
The icons are also painted on old wood, wood that with time
does not change. They imitate famous icons from the 12th and
14th centuries AD and observe the Byzantine dogmas.
The mirrors are made from pieces of old furniture which cannot
be reconditioned: for instance I use wardrobe door where I
insert the mirror.
The technique I used for these paintings is hundreds of years
old - the wooden surface is treated with bone-glue, plaster
and chalk ground, natural pigments (earth and oxides) mixed
with egg emulsion ( the egg emulsion has the most important
role in consolidating the colours), a layer of flax oil, and
wax as a final protecting layer. The anti-cavity varnish under
the wax layer ensures a final protection to the painted wood.
This technique has proven its resistance in time, as the colours
do not alter (unlike the oil paints which grow black and lose
their original hue). All my works are hand painted and patinated,
thus reminding of their old originals. Although they look old,
these works can very well fit in a modern furnished house where
they can add some colours, thus chasing the monotony away.
Suggested prices
For the painted furniture the prices vary between 200 and
1500 euros (according to the size of the work and the complexity
of their painted patterns), the old piece of furniture being
included. If the client has an old piece whose painting he
wishes to restore (or wishes a new piece of furniture to be
painted) the price varies between 100 and 500 euros , according
to the pattern the client has chosen.
The painted mirrors cost between 50 and 300 euros.
The icons cost between 40 and 400 euros: for example an icon
the size of an A4 sheet can cost between 70 and 80 euros
The works can be ordered by phone or accessing my e-mail address
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