About me

Born on 1st of August 1967 in Iasi, Romania.

I worked as a designer and as teacher of fine arts. Now I collaborate with decorating companies as indoor designer and I paint.

I paint from imagination and the favorite theme whereat revert again and again is costumes and masks of carnival and also a fantastic universe with the atmosphere of the story away from our days. I alternate between them depending on my mood and inspiration of the moment.

Location: Bacau, Romania
Website: http://www.decorative.ro

Personal exhibitions:

1995 Graphics exhibition Metamorfoza (Metamorphosis) Sala Ateneu Bacau

1997 Painting exhibition Peisaje in vara (Landscapes in Summer) G.Bacovia Theatre Bacau

2003 Decorative painting exhibition Evadare (Escape) Iulian Antonescu Museum - Bacau

2004 Painting exhibition Peisaje miniaturi (Landscapes - miniatures) Basilisk Gallery Elvetia (Morges)

2005 Painting exhibition Priviri ascunse (Hidden Sights) Sala de expozitii C-tin Brancusi Exhibition Hall Parliament Palace Bucuresti

2006 Painting exhibition Miraj (Mirage) Iulian Antonescu Museum Hall - Bacau

2007 - “African tones” - Muzeul “Iulian Antonescu”

2009, march - “Spring's dreams” - Galeriile de Arta Contemporana Bacau

2009, mai - “Spring's dreams” - “Hidalgo” GAllery, Focsani - Teatrul “ Ghe. Pastia” Focsani

2009, nov - 2010 martie - Personal exhibition, Arena Mall Bacau

2011, march - Pwersonal exhibition, Art Gallery "Ion Irimescu", Suceava, Romania

On-line exhibition, comentarii & critici

"Romanian romance"- InsideSOLO Exhibition. Special series! — Richard Sunderland: Between the partially hidden faces, the gestural hands, the masks of hidden identity, the dilemma of what to reveal or to hide - there is a line that ties Dorina’s paintings together...

Featured Artists & Works of Note - critics, vol. 19 pdf: ... It is like going back in time to Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, where thought, body language, and a blink of the eye could beguile and entrap...

Premiul Margaret Harris Fine Art Awards for excellence in Fine Art Sojie 3 and the 1st Place Traditional SOLO pentru lucrarea "Elegie" din seria "Soapte" - mai 2010.

Musetouch - Visual Arts Magazine: Dorina Costras - My magical worlds : ... Since the first time I saw Dorina's magical artworks I was amazed and delighted...