MĂDĂLINA CEANGĂU
🪷MĂDĂLINA CEANGĂU is the one who will initiate us into the secrets of Sumi-e painting (Japanese-style ink painting).
🪷In the picture you can see her Sumi-e painting with our national flower, the peony, which she created with the aim of becoming the logo of our Association, Ikebana International Bucharest.
🪷Her Sumi-e workshop at the Bucharest Ikebana Festival (October 13-19, 2025, USAMVB, Bd. Mărăști 59) will be on October 18 at 4:00 PM.
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🪷Mădălina is the artistic director of our Ikebana International Bucharest Association, but more than that, she is a complex artist, whose sensitive soul vibrates in the delicate chords of traditional Japanese art, whether it is Ikebana, Sumi-e or the Haiku poem.
In recent years, she has followed the Ikebana Sogetsu certified course, and will soon receive her first Ikebana teacher diploma, with the flower name Reika 嶺花. We congratulate her wholeheartedly and wish her a peaceful journey, in the pure atmosphere of the heights where the flower of her soul resides🪷
🪷Her own words about herself:
”The fascination with Japanese culture began with a small step: the curious eyes of a child who was still not in school but who was looking at the time-blurred images of "different paintings" and the "pictures" of ladies with unusual hairstyles and "dresses", images stuck in what seemed to be a calendar-album. She found out that they were called prints and geisha and existed in a distant country, Japan.
The years disintegrated everything that had been palpable in the child's hands at that time, but the memory kept the spark. Stepping into adolescence, the search began: first there were colors. What did the stamps look like? How were they drawn?
Then came the words: the first authors of Japanese literature read... and haiku..
Settling on the thread of life after college, another search ... Kado. What could be more wonderful than flowers and color? Few resources and clumsy, but sincere floral arrangements. A stop on the path: what is it like to learn Japanese?
The meeting in 2019 with the one who will put in the hands of the eternal seeker, a real ikebanist scissors and a kenzan, Sanda Lazur.
The journey on the "Path of Flowers" continues today, together with sensei Florentina Vinica Barbu. Other open paths but, for the child who looked curiously at the images of "different paintings", each ikebana created represents a new beginning... And, along the way, she explores other worlds that enrich her knowledge: sumi-e.”
