My name is Isabela Vasiliu. My artist’s name is BEEaTREE.

            I was born in Romania but I have worked, lived, and traveled in

Southeast Asia for the past seventeen years. After twenty years of working in the field of TESOL as a teacher and teacher trainer, certain cathartic life events catapulted me into shifting the focus from the outer world toward the inner world. What followed from that has been a journey of reconnecting with myself, healing, exploring, and learning about parts of myself that lay dormant for many years. Such as my creative expression through ART.

             A few words about my ART then.

             Most days it doesn’t really feel like I’m “making” ART. It’s simply

happening to me. I see it as a sacred gift from God. Not God as in that external entity sitting on thrown watching over us. But God as in the Universal The energy that moves through all things like an invisible, yet very much present, needle and thread. God as in the LOVE that stitches all wounds and heals and integrates everything that has disintegrated.

           My art is a combination of mixed materials, photography, and digital drawing.  I never know what I am drawing in advance.

        Once I start, something emerges. Something spontaneous comes to life. As time passes, I am able to identify recurrent themes and elements. Although it’s evolving and changing, most of the time, my art begins with a natural element. Something very simple, unassuming, and seemingly of little or no value. Broken twigs, fallen leaves or feathers, dried pods, flowers, seeds, egg shells, orange peel – whatever Nature discards, I celebrate.

        On some level, it feels like I am reconstructing Nature. However, I know full well that in doing so, I have only been reconstructing Myself. In other words, my art is very much a reflection of my journey of healing and re-birthing as well as an example of how Inner Nature and Outer Nature are One and the Same. Indistinguishable.

      Ever since my inner journey began, I have found myself fascinated by shadows and light. The interplay between Light and Darkness, as the Nature of ALL things. I realize how this relates to the journey back to oneself: the unconditional self-love and self-acceptance we need to find within before we can extend the same love to everyone else. After all, the inner journey is all about making peace with and integrating all aspects of self.