ME

 From a young age, I was drawn not just to drawing, but to observing the world — searching for beauty, meaning, and wonder. I was captivated by art, architecture, photography, literature, and the subtle poetry of everyday life. Over time, this curiosity opened up a rich inner landscape shaped by books, poetry, cinema, and visual arts.  

My formative years in the atelier of the painter and dear mentor Rodolfo Guzzoni directed my path toward portraiture. With each work, I seek not just to represent a face, but to glimpse the invisible currents of emotion and memory beneath the surface.

EDUCATION

  • 2019-20
    Bottega d’Arte di Ettore Maiotti Milan, Italy

  • 2018-19
    Workshop Antonio Molino Milan, Italy

  • 2016 -18
    Atelier Rodolfo Guzzoni Pavia, Italy

RECOGNITIONS

  • 2024. Finalist at ModPortrait 2024

  • 2020
    XXI Salon International ESART- Reconocimiento dell mérito artistico- Barcelona, Spain

  • 2019
    XX Salòn Internacional ESART- Medalla al mérito artístico- Barcelona, Spain

EXHIBITIONS

  • 2025

    The MEAM HALL 6th edition / Espacio Jovellanos - Madrid, Spain

  • 2025

    The MEAM HALL 6th edition / European Museum of Modern Art - Barcelona, Spain

  • 2025

    Correspondences / ONART Gallery - Florence, Italy

  • 2025

    ModPortrait 2024 / Arroyomolinos Auditorium - Madrid, Spain

  • 2025

    ModPortrait 2024 / Real Circulo Artistico - Barcellona, Spain

  • 2024-25

    The MEAM HALL 5th edition / European Museum of Modern Art - Barcelona, Spain

  • 2024

    The MEAM HALL 5th edition / First Street Gallery - New York, USA

  • 2024
    A deep connection / ONART Gallery - Florence, Italy

  • 2023
    Rendering the essence / ArtTime Gallery - Udine, Italy

  • 2021
    Through / ONART Gallery - Florence, Italy

  • 2021
    Divine Comedy. Contemporary art rereads Dante Alighieri / Casa Gaia da Camino Museum - Portobuffolé (TV), Italy

  • 2021
    Root. Sublimation Man-Nature/ ONART Gallery - Florence, Italy

  • 2020
    Kunsthaus Burg Obernberg Ausstelung / Obernberg Castle - Burg Obernberg, Austria

  • 2020
    Women and fathers - A tribute / ARTtime Gallery - Udine, Italy

  • 2020
    XXI Salòn International ESART / Esart Galeria - Barcelona, Spain

  • 2019
    Affordable Art / Merlino Bottega d'Arte Gallery - Florence, Italy

  • 2019
    XX Salòn Internacional ESART / Esart Galeria - Barcelona, Spain

PRESS

  • 2021
    Sellerio Edizioni - Romanzo civile (book cover)

  • 2021
    Sellerio Edizioni - Chi ha ucciso Sara? (book cover)

  • 2021
    Edizioni Chartesia, Treviso, Italia - Divina Commedia - Illustrated edition

  • 2019
    GALART Dicionario 2018/2019- GalArt Dicionario - Artistas, Articulos, Comentarios, Galerias, Exposiciones.

  • 2019
    GALART (Marzo-Abril 2019 n. 377)- Cataluna exposiciones Federica Belloli ESART (Barcelona)

PAINTING, WHY?

Painting for me is a deeply moving experience — a way of anchoring thought in form and entering a space where perception becomes sensation. Creativity is like stepping into a world where images turn inside out, where the usual hierarchy between above and below, inside and outside, dissolves, not unlike Alice’s world, where logic slips, proportions shift, and vision is constantly unsettled.

I paint because it allows me to lose track of time and to explore moments and sensations that have not yet found form elsewhere. What began as a physical necessity — instinctive and deeply personal — has become an indispensable part of who I am.

MY POETICS

My paintings emerge from the multiform cosmos of human emotions, where melancholy and memory are inextricably entwined with the natural world. Linked to nature and to the past, my work seeks a place of relief — and perhaps refuge — from a distant world that fades into a quiet background, no longer disturbing. Realism in my work coexists with a subtle sense of the magical. I am drawn to the purity and wonder of a child’s vision — a space of innocence, imagination, and unfiltered perception. I often depict figures in communion with their spirit animal, evocations of nature’s instinctive and mysterious dimensions, reminding us of what precedes us and moves through us.

MY WORK

I have an impatient nature: I need to realise my ideas quickly. Acrylics, with their rapid drying time and matte finish, allow me this immediacy without disturbing the perception of form and surface.

I began working in black and white, whisper-soft, and over time introduced colour more sparingly — often in broad, quiet fields that evoke a suspended, almost metaphysical atmosphere. These fields of colour contrast with the solidity of the figures, creating a quiet tension between form and feeling.

Experimentation remains essential. New materials, hybrid techniques, and textural contrasts are tools through which I continually test and expand my visual language. Painting, to me, remains a living organism — an evolving field of research shaped by perception.