A ROMANIAN artist will exhibit her work at a church this weekend (November 21-23).

Mirela Bistran’s Interior Gardens show will be on display at St Oswald’s Church, Church Street, Durham City, this Saturday and Sunday.

It will feature original paintings and prints made by Mrs Bistran over the last three years, exploring themes of comfort and intimacy relating to prayer and confession.

“I think of my artwork as unfinished confessional statements, which are immediately concerned not with the bare, sometimes constraining, forms of the figurative, but with the intensity, joy and outpouring which bald colours carry in their encounter with each other; an encounter sometimes timid, sometimes explosive, close to recalling prayer,” she said.

Mrs Bistran moved to the UK from her homeland in 2008. Her husband Petrica is studying to become a clergyman and served a placement at St Oswald’s Church.

She is studying a master’s degree in fine art at Newcastle University.

The exhibition is open on Saturday from 10am to 5pm and on Sunday from 1pm to 5pm. Entry is free.