Local artisan Ionela Lungu from Humulesti village – Tg Neamt, Neamt County

Ionela Lungu is a local artisan from Humulesti village (a place near Targu Neamt, from Neamt County) that manages to create handmade objects inspired by stories by Ion Creanga (the greatest storyteller of Romania). She lives a few houses away fromwhere Ion Creanga livedand she has a real passion for everything related to this great writer. That is why she tries to share this passion with other people by creating clay figurines that represent characters created by Ion Creanga, like: ant Marioara, Pacala, Mos Nichifor Cotcarul, Mos Ion Roata, Danila Prepeleac.

As we mentioned above these figurines are made out of clay, dried in the sun, painted and decorated using natural threads or small pieces of tanned lamb skins for the headpiece. Each of these characters is made according to the descriptions made by Ion Creanga.

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Ionela Lungu is a member of The National Association of Folk Artisans from Romania and a teacher at the Art and Trades School from Vanatori. In her creations she combines more than only one craft to create these smiling faces that remind us of the characters created by Ion Creanga: clay modeling, tanning of the animal skin, hemp weaving.