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Original Artwork by D.C. Thomas
Oil on Canvas
16” X 20” (40.64cm X 50.8cm)
D.C. Thomas is a Romanian-American mixed media artist whose evocative paintings explore the spiritual terrain of matrilineality, memory, and myth. Raised in Southern Romania and now living in Tennessee, Thomas works in oil and acrylic, incorporating gold foil, glitter, and iridescent elements to conjure ethereal realms where the past remains ever-present. Her latest body of work pays homage to her maternal lineage, most notably her great-grandmother Parascheva, grandmother Maria, and mother, Mia, through a visual language that draws from Greek, Dacian, and Romanian ancestry. Infused with the sacred blues of Romanian church frescoes and adorned with metallic elements reminiscent of Byzantine icons, her work is both devotional and defiant. These portraits are not mere likenesses; they are reliquaries of memory, protectors of stories, and keepers of silence. Through them, Thomas examines the beauty and burden of inherited identity: how womanhood is passed down, repressed, celebrated, and guarded. Repeated motifs of halos, celestial spheres, and architectural arches echo throughout the collection, bridging the visible with the invisible, the intimate with the eternal.
Thomas’s art is not only a visual practice, but also a spiritual one, a way of making sense of the ancestral echoes that shape her inner world. In every detail, from embroidered motifs to shimmering halos, she draws attention to the hidden architectures of womanhood: the secrets, the silences, and the sacred stories passed down through generations.
Nothing is random. Everything is passion.
Original Artwork by D.C. Thomas
Oil on Canvas
16” X 20” (40.64cm X 50.8cm)
D.C. Thomas is a Romanian-American mixed media artist whose evocative paintings explore the spiritual terrain of matrilineality, memory, and myth. Raised in Southern Romania and now living in Tennessee, Thomas works in oil and acrylic, incorporating gold foil, glitter, and iridescent elements to conjure ethereal realms where the past remains ever-present. Her latest body of work pays homage to her maternal lineage, most notably her great-grandmother Parascheva, grandmother Maria, and mother, Mia, through a visual language that draws from Greek, Dacian, and Romanian ancestry. Infused with the sacred blues of Romanian church frescoes and adorned with metallic elements reminiscent of Byzantine icons, her work is both devotional and defiant. These portraits are not mere likenesses; they are reliquaries of memory, protectors of stories, and keepers of silence. Through them, Thomas examines the beauty and burden of inherited identity: how womanhood is passed down, repressed, celebrated, and guarded. Repeated motifs of halos, celestial spheres, and architectural arches echo throughout the collection, bridging the visible with the invisible, the intimate with the eternal.
Thomas’s art is not only a visual practice, but also a spiritual one, a way of making sense of the ancestral echoes that shape her inner world. In every detail, from embroidered motifs to shimmering halos, she draws attention to the hidden architectures of womanhood: the secrets, the silences, and the sacred stories passed down through generations.
Nothing is random. Everything is passion.