Gabriela Stan works slowly and with great deliberateness — a single painting can take three to six months from the first preparatory study to the final varnish. This pace is not a limitation but a methodology: she is interested in what sustained looking produces over time, and how a painting changes when it is returned to repeatedly across different moods and light qualities.
Her subjects are drawn from still life and the studio interior — spaces she can control and return to. She does not paint from photographs, on the principle that the absence of the original light introduces a fundamental dishonesty. She accepts commissions for still life and interior work from collectors who understand the extended timeline.
