Ioana Jitaru
Biography
Ioana Jitaru is a Swiss-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting and photography. Rooted in a deep attention to nature, spirituality, and the poetry of everyday life, her practice explores how emotion, place, and time intersect—sometimes quietly, sometimes with graphic intensity.
Statement
I move between painting and photography, exploring the beauty of everyday life—its fleeting emotions, and small narratives that often pass unnoticed. My images begin with observation and end with a question: how can a moment become a place to return to?
Nature is a constant guide in my practice: mountains and shorelines, trees and weather, animal presence, the architecture of branches, the weight of stone. I’m drawn to forms that carry both clarity and mystery—graphic lines, open space, layered surfaces—because they mirror how we experience time: in fragments, rhythms, and traces. Whether the work is abstract or anchored in the recognisable, I aim to create an invitation to pause, to look longer, and to feel the tender charge between presence and impermanence.
Education | Selected
2020
Travel Photography
Stanford University (CSP), USA
2017-2018
Interior Design
Professional Design Institute FZE, UAE
"Travel Photography: Around the Corner and Around the World". Translate the fundamentals of photography into images that convey a sense of place, create expressive landscapes, environmental portraits, architectural compositions, and photo essays.
Space planning, concept development, materials/finishes selection, and styling with a strong sense of atmosphere and proportion.
2016
Painting & Design Fundamentals
Gilbert Wolfisberg & Artur Karapetian
L’Artquarium Studio, Switzerland
Foundations in composition, color theory, form, and visual language, strengthening both technical skills and personal style.
2011 - 2012
Painting & Design Fundamentals
Delia Calinescu Art Studio, Romania
Foundations in painting techniques, composition, colour theory, form, and visual language.