Elleny Gherghe
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2026

The Woman Magazine

Interview by Carina Cichi

In this interview for The Woman Magazine, Elleny Gherghe traces how each place she has lived — Comănești, Bucharest, and now her studio near Sotogrande — has left its mark on her painting, from the hills and forests of her childhood to the light and energy of Andalusia.

She speaks about how motherhood has changed her working rhythm in the studio, the Romanian folk roots behind works such as Romanian Legs, and her first solo museum exhibition, “Motherhood and the Beast Within”, at the Ghika Museum in her hometown of Comănești.

Elleny Gherghe, photographed for The Woman Magazine