Livia Balu is a visual artist, who lives and works in Clarens/Montreux, Switzerland. As an award-winning illustrator, painter, and engraver, she lives and breathes art - her raison d'être since childhood. Her work is prolific and has exhibited all over the world - from Romania to Switzerland, from Austria to France, from South Korea to Spain, and from Italy and China to New York.Livia has a natural talent that cannot be contained. She brings a unique gift of expression, driven by an innate passion and the desire to bring joy to others. As a consummate professional, she continually seeks to expand her learning - not only for her own self-improvement, but also to further inform how her art can help enhance the human condition. As an art therapist and teacher, she brings her expertise as an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Master Practitioner to her classes for children and adults to help them stimulate everyday creative processes.Livia's personal evolution has been a dance of ongoing reflection, progress, and synchronicity. And there is nothing that inspires, motivates, and fuels her more than her profound love for the nature. Livia's work is rich, thought-provoking and sumptuous, touching the soul. She can turn a massive mountain into an intimate friend, and a modest cauliflower into a complex interpretive experience, creating deep connection and pleasure through her colour and form.By Jennifer Rose Rojas, Certified Hypnotist and Writer, Pennsylvania, USA