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Elizabeth's Odyssey |
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Elizabeth Romhild is a Danish Armenian, who was born 1960 by an Armenian father and a Danish mother in Frederiksberg, Denmark. She spent her childhood in Teheran, Iran in an Armenian environment, the people of an ancient nation, today an independent country in the Caucasus, famous for their richness of art, culture and ancient churches. Elizabeth's Danish inheritance of spiritual openness, sincerity and intense fervour has combined the best qualities from both nations and formed the true nature of Elizabeth Romhild, which is a passionate involvement in life and divine freedom! The quintessence of Elizabeth Romhild's innermost powers and tremendous tensions casts her to paint allegories of life-forces, sometimes even in blazed brushwork or pointillism, as is the case in most of her earlier artworks, where she virtually splits forms, fracturing in a Neo-Impressionists manner, to achieve luminosity, sometimes creating flame like mysterious auras by rhythmic colour transitions from cold to warm royal colours on her formative lusty figures to express an inner sense of magical balance, thus Elizabeth sets her inner volcanic flames sometimes even to ice... On the one hand she composes simple formal structures and themes, whilst on the other deliberately uses a few expressive, warm and fresh contrasting colours as a means to communicate her innermost and personal warm feelings. Her compositions directly express the power of womanhood. Unlike classical Cubists she renders wax like figures sometimes with gentle feminine caresses, abolishing the classical and geometric, elevating the painting to a spiritual stage, where forms begin to vibrate like bundles of smelting energies. Thus she invites the viewer to the sacred place, involving us to the most private dialogue that has occurred between her and the canvas. There is no doubt that: Elizabeth Romhild's work is a quest for magical intensity and nobility of the soul. She adds musical instruments and vibrating quality in her colour vocabulary that raises her soul above the physical and primal senses to an aura of noble simplicity with magical quality and enigmatic and mythical aura, which develops to be one of the principal characteristics of her painting. Karekin Dickran Art Director |
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