Every painting begins with curiosity. Mine begins by listening. As it unfolds, it reveals something I hadn't noticed before, and with every layer, I discover something new—not only about the world before me, but about myself.

I'm Rina Ritzi, and this is how my paintings begin.

I don't paint what I see as much as what I experience. Sometimes that experience whispers through light and atmosphere. Sometimes it dances through colour and emotion. Over time, those conversations found their own voices in my work: Where Light Whispers and Where Colour Dances.

Nature has always been where I learned to listen. I've never believed that a painting should reveal everything at once. Like nature, it unfolds—layer by layer—inviting us to keep discovering.

For twenty-five years I worked in a world of numbers and precision. Painting became the place where curiosity, intuition and possibility could finally breathe.

If one of my paintings invites you to move a little closer, perhaps it has found its