Gilda Frumkin is inspired by places from which people have passed and have left their mark, focusing her gaze on seascapes and seashores, sentimentally bringing to life the moments and the memories of those who have existed before. Gilda's themes is not an outcome of the search for what is different. The inspiration is drawn from the insignificant, from the observation of the world of the ocean and of the seashores. One recognises in her work a sensitive choice of colors, and at the same time bold combinations through which, as Athena Schina (History of Art professor) mentions, "attention is given to the realistic depiction of the themes through an everydayness that is full of nostalgia, life wishes and lyricism". Ηer unique technique, constructing and painting the frame on which she extends her themes that is ("frame in the frame"), gives one a feeling that the seas overflow the canvas, taking the viewer upon a journey to dream-like hot summers where the gaze is lost in the ocean's blue and eventually meets the skyline. The painter achieves to extol the Greek landscape through the wide – clean brush strokes, the natural and artificial shades and the variety of color tones, which play hide-and-seek with the light, just as the clouds do so with the sun. The seascapes, the producs of human activity in nature play a protagonistic role in this series of Gilda's work, in contrast to human figures, which seem to be completely absent. «In Gilda's work, man is present through his passage. One encounters oars, buoys or ropes, heavy chains, which are all travelling, seduced, in a state of metaphysical realism. The brushstroke is often impressionistic, whereas on other occasions it distorts its realism and becomes abstraction, an artistic environment where the image's symbolism meets the sentiment's expressionism and the two together give birth to an unprecedented existential situation – with the lyricism and the artistic sensitivity underlying the value of the journey", Nikoletta Kalaitzaki notes (art historian/ curator).
"And it is from here that men have passed...and lived...and left behind..."

Efi Palli