About

Ruxandra Chendi is a visual artist with a distinctive approach to painting that blends the sculpting of material with storytelling through color. Her initial training in marketing and interior design gave her a deep understanding of space, composition, and materials—a foundation upon which she built her own visual language, where painting becomes tactile relief and emotion condensed into substance.

Ruxandra Chendi works predominantly in the impasto technique, transforming the canvas surface into an almost sculptural experience. Each work is constructed in layers of modeling paste, acrylic, and metallic accents (liquid gold and silver, pearlescent effects), creating real volume, tangible texture, and plays of light that change the artwork depending on the viewing angle.

Her artistic style unfolds in two complementary directions, both rooted in narrative and emotional memory:

• Sculptural symbolism — works with pronounced volume, mineral textures, and archetypal structures, inspired by the cultural universe (Brâncuși, Eminescu, the Sphinx of Bucegi, myth), where form becomes symbol and the idea precedes the material;
• Chromatic exuberance and impasto lacework — vibrant compositions rich in floral and gastronomic details, handcrafted in relief, where intense color, visual rhythm, and ornament become a language of joy, love, and lived presence.

Recurring themes in her work include love, the mother–child / husband–wife connection, emotional memory, sensual femininity, dance, and the joy of human connection. Many of her paintings originate from real, personal moments—a scene filmed in Havana, a gesture observed between two people, a reading transformed into visual metaphor—which she translates into artworks where emotion becomes matter.

For Ruxandra Chendi, painting is not decorative, but a bridge between story and sensation, between idea and physical presence. Her works invite closeness—visual, tactile, and emotional.