Bianca Turner

“In life as in my paintings, I am deeply inspired by nature. Because I love and respect nature so much, I try to protect it by showing its magic on my canvases. Ever since I was a child, from my first drawings, nature appears as a leitmotif profoundly meaningful to me even when I make portraits. I let my imagination to be exhilarated by it and to develop fully into the serenity of my artwork. I love to "steal" from nature all the elements such as the vibrant colors and the reflection of lights and to put them in my compositions.

I use both organic and inorganic media -- they merge on the canvas -- they stay alive and recycle. Everything that is shiny in my art symbolizes the walk into a fantastic world where fairy tales come alive and all of the elements of the universe intertwine. As I paint, bright red, forest green, deep blue mixes with glitter to create a play of light and to add a sense of texture to the image. Natural materials such as sand, flower petals, and copper, create a dreamlike world in which figures take on the appearance of magical creatures. A vision or even a word becomes fascination which turns into color and shadows which tell a new story in this dimension of infinity.

It happens often when I go to bed that I have colors, images, bits of nature, and life in my mind. Many times I dream about what I will paint the next day -- the raving beauty of nature, her colors, her mien -- she guides me when I paint. The techniques of painting that I utilize give my soul the freedom to "dance" onto canvas -- to create the beauty that surrounds me -- to be at peace with the world.”

Bianca Turner’s paintings are deeply inspired by nature and its vivid colors and reflections of light. The shiny quality in her work, created by mixing bright colored paint with glitter, represents a fantasy world where her imagination and the elements of the universe intertwine. Turner sees art as “the definition of infinity” and her work explores the continuous transmutation of the evolving essence of life and nature. Visions and words turn into colors and textures to create new narratives in this dimension of infinity. Turner is a self-taught artist from Romania. She holds degrees in economics and biochemistry.

You can visit Turner's online gallery at www.biancaturner.com or on Instagram at @biancaturnerart. She accepts orders through her website or via email at info@biancaturner.com.