Lavi Picu is a Romanian visual artist , currently living in Montreal. She uses painting and poetry as alternative forms of self expression as well as pain management therapy for Lyme disease. Lavi is also the author of four soulful collections of poetry.
She challenges herself daily to capture bits of the beauty that surrounds us. She draws her inspiration from her travels, from everywhere and near, from daily activities, music, love, pain, her poetry as well as who she has become.
She loves working and experimenting with layers of acrylic paint, creating an array of textures. She uses watercolor, pastel, oil colors, colored pencils, but she is more drawn to acrylics. Her paintings can be found in private collections from North America, Europe, Asia and Central America.
Majored in Linguistics, with a background in Translations and writing, she's also a ghost writer, a blogger with a focus on arts and health and a Lyme Disease advocate.
In 2017 she launched an online awareness campaign for Lyme disease that reached people from all over the world. She has been blogging about Lyme on various online platforms.