Marilena Ana Suciu
painter

Suciu Marilena is borned on 01.06.1963 in Sanbenedic, the district of Alba, Romania. Now she is established in Alba Iulia.

She has attended the V-XII classes at the Plastic Arts College in Cluj Napoca, which she has graduated in 1982. Here she has becamed accustomed with monumental and byzantine painting, which she has practiced only in 2000, at priest`s Inochentie Stoica and abbess`s Gabriela, from the Monastery "St. John" (Strungari-Alba), insistances. Here she painted the rood screen, the vault of monastery`s main entrance and many other icons made on wood, in neo-byzantine stile.

From that moment she has dedicated herself only to iconography on wood. The icons made by her hand had arrived in many private collections from Romania and abroad (Germany, Italy, Austria, Finland, USA and Canada).

Also, some of her paintings are in diverse orthodox churches situated inside the country and abroad (Girbova de Sus, Blandiana, Ocna Mures- Alba county , Micasasa, Chesler, Medias- Sibiu county , Dublin- Ireland , UK ).

Since 2003 she has icons exposed permanentelly in the two gallerys of folk arts of the National Museum Complex "Astra", Sibiu. Starting the second year, at univ. prof. dr. Corneliu Bucur, the museum`s director, invitation she has been participating at the Fair of Romanian Folk Creators, organized yearly in the open air museum from the Grove of Sibiu, on the 15th of august.

In 2005 she had become a member of the Romanian Folk Creators Association.

In 2006 she has exhibitions in the Town Hall of Medias (23.11-08.12) and in Hotel Phoenica from Bucharest 16.12.2006-07.01.2007.

The icons are painted on hard stratificated wood, on which is stucked flaxen or cotton canvas. This combination offers high resistence in time. She uses underlined decorations made by her own hands and giled with gold leaf. The paintings are made of watercolours and oil colours. In the end the icons are varnished with special lacquers, which settles and protects the paint.