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.