Ileana Ceauşu - Pandele (b. 1927, Poienari de Muscel). Painter - illustrator, a graduate of the Art Institute. Book illustrations, engravings, watercolors, painting on glass. Member of The Artists Union.
"... long time ago Toparceanu, while evoking the forest, in one of his antologic poems, said: 'the only one like me". Ileana Ceausu-Pandele too, loves the Forest. She admires and lends it, as Toparceanu did, human emotions. But the artist, winner of numerous awards at home and abroad, with works that have wandered successful around the world, not only loves the Forest - which awaits shy, but hopefull - but also the blessed return of the Spring. Ileana Ceausu-Pandeles loves nature in all its beauty, eternal God-given. Ileana Ceausu loves the Romanian plains, surrounded by meadows in which the summer sings its glory in flaming colors, loves the Romanian hamlets drowned in snow, inventors of fairy tales - as it whispers with inaudible voice the artist's favorite work: "Memories - when they embrace me" .... Author of some splendid illustrations for children, with her child soul, Ileana Ceausu-Pandele takes us by the hand and leads us into the world of righteous childhood memories and brings in front of our eyes those girls of Nature, that by now, looking trough the fog of the city, we lost from our memory" ... by Silvia Kerim
