Sun Liudmila
Main achievement
He rediscovered a long-lost technique: painting on gold. He stretches a thin sheet of gold on canvas and paints on it: the resulting colors, for this reason, have a greater luminous gradation than simple oil painting.
About
Liudmila Sun is a painter of Moldovan origin, recognized mainly for her oil creations, made in the "plein-air" technique on landscapes of the French Riviera and around the Mediterranean Sea. As she is originally from Moldova, she continued her training in arts and design in Milan, at the Istituto Europeo di Design, obtaining a bachelor's degree in Art and a master's degree in Interior Design, which provided her with a solid foundation in both artistic composition and space arrangement. This combination of fine visual experience and sensitivity for space is serenely, brightly, and very colorfully reflected in her paintings, in which the light and atmosphere of the landscapes are captured as unique moments of color and reflection. In France, Liudmila Sun became known for her technique of painting directly on gold and silver leaf, achieving much more intense glimmers and light textures than on a simple oil panel. This technique, combined with a spatial quality of her palette, takes the roots of Impressionism to a new level of perception, where each painting becomes almost a fragment of sky or water transformed into matter. The choice of themes – the dynamics of light on the Lérins Islands, the landscapes of Monaco or the Côte d’Azur – emphasizes an attitude of contemplation of nature, translated into saturated and sharp chromatic existences, yet elegant and restrained. In France, as well as in Monaco, Liudmila Sun has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, in cultural spaces such as Espace 22 in Monte Carlo, where she exhibited works painted on gold and silver alongside other female painters inspired by the principality's landscapes. Living in the Principality, yet maintaining close ties with France, the artist transforms the Mediterranean space into a visual laboratory, where each "en plein-air" outing becomes a source of inspiration and a visual quest for pure light. Although the intimate details of her family life are not widely exposed to the public, the importance of landscape, furniture, and interior space – inherited from her interior design training – is reflected in an aesthetic that favors harmony, balance, and discreet refinement, conveyed through the luxury of color rather than ostentation.
