Costea De La Reghin

His universe is filled with fantastical roaming animals , folklore, stories of the countryside from different corners of his life and journeys. The palette a vibrant set of hues that soften the reality towards an imaginary landscape.

Costea De La Reghin

His universe is filled with fantastical roaming animals , folklore, stories of the countryside from different corners of his life and journeys. The palette a vibrant set of hues that soften the reality towards an imaginary landscape.

Fascinated by France, Costea migrated in 1999 from his native western Romanian city of Timisoara. Using the Flemish and Byzantine technique of painting in egg tempera and oil in layers from the birth of the painting to ending in a translucent oil glaze, his works take on a certain luminosity and delicateness. Each colour is extracted through layers, 5 layers to a green, 20 to a red. Each canvas is a story. A calm poetic and curious introspective journey through our mental universe. It creates new myths of cosmoanustes, angels, mermaids sorcerers and sometimes a snail. A deceptive innocence that delves on a wider world into which the viewer gets drawn voluntarily.

He lives and works in France.