Vasile BOTNARU

Born in 1957 (January 12).

     I have graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Lomonosov State University in Moscow. Graphics is an invariable hobby that has not turned into a routine, because I earn my living from the job of journalist.
     I have also worked as photo reporter, secretary of the editorial board, political commentator, but I claim I am good in the news writing. Together with two colleagues, I have founded the BASA-press News Agency, which turns ten. I have contributed to the import of the PRO-TV Television to Chisinau and the export of Moldovan news to INFOPRO-Bucharest. I am a correspondent for Free Europe Radio, Russian Section, and for the Associated Press.
     I also stay with the party of "the last of the Mohicans" who categorically refuse to leave Moldova, despite the poor living conditions and whatever happens.

    " Thank you for opening this page. My friends call me Basil. That is why I am signing my paintings with this coded "B". My drawings are like a shelter where I can escape when I am tired of my, at all romantic, job of journalist. It is an ideal place where I waste tons of ink and paper. There is probably no need to say that I haven't done any painting schools. It's obvious. Because I don't know techniques, I don't need to mimic the spontaneity. It is actually about improvizations, or hallucinations, which are provoqued by a "Molotov Coctail", tried by everyone: night, plus music, plus a table with a reading lamp, loneliness. And bear. A polite psychiatrist told me that he would borrow my paintings to test his patients. A parapsychologist told me that the confronting lines have an energetic load. Others who saw my drawings have offered me money for them. However, I happily give them as gifts most of the times. When I had the opportunity to travel - in France, UK, United States - I have taken them with me. A part of my drawings are "gone" in Romania, Germany, Poland, Russia, Hungary and even China. But most of all I like to remember about my experience of being a "strolling painter on Monmartre", where I have succeeded to sell several of my paintings. After five years, I have dared to expose them on the Internet to find out your opinion. You have at your disposal two balls - "yes" or "no". Even if you credit any of my drawings with a black one, I don't mind. And please, come back, because I will refre sh my gallery (what an exacting word!). I still have much more albums to show to you. And ink too, as well as paper, and "Molotov Coctail"..."