Oana Petrescu uses the transparency of watercolour to generate ambiguity — the layered washes allow her surrealist imagery to feel genuinely uncertain rather than arbitrarily strange. Her paintings often depict landscapes in which something is slightly wrong: a horizon at the wrong height, a building casting a shadow in the wrong direction, water that flows upward.
She studied in Bucharest and continued in Barcelona, where the Spanish surrealist tradition was a significant influence. She is now based in Oradea, working in a studio she describes as too small and too cold — conditions she considers productive. She does not accept commissions.
