Biografia
When I was a child I used to enjoy myself doodling with tempera colours and pencils, dreaming of animals and colourful houses, like children do. Back then, I didn’t know that this would eventually become my ‘Great Love’. Beside my humanistic studies, I have always cultivated this passion, drawing and painting as a self-taught artist. Studying at the Cova Art School of Milan was what finally got me closer to painting. There, I attended Mariella Sadorin’s three-year course with great enthusiasm. This remarkable painter helped me learn different pictorial techniques and develop a peculiar use of colour. I then attended a course of trompe l’oeil and lessons of Portrait and Creative Drawing, which were essential in marking a turning point in my artistic path.
Always a kaleidoscope of colours, my works - poetical, dreamlike, savage – are often permeated by my passion for sea and faraway and adventurous journeys.
Being curious and restless, I find travelling an ideal way to get to know what surrounds me and to observe people’s expressions. most of all, journeys give me the chance to get closer to animals and nature, nowadays so mistreated and forgotten by Man. I would define my latest works as belonging to "NATURABSTRACTIONISM": a powerful and true vision of Nature, with an attitude both realistic and abstract, alternating between empathy (getting closer to reality) and abstraction (taking distance from reality), which exalts my emotions through shapes and colours.
In my works, I like playing with acrylic colours and gels, plaster, oil colours and pastels, watercolour ink, gauzes, papier maché, silver-gold-copper-leaf, sometimes blending these materials together.
I also enjoy decorating furniture, textiles and salvaged materials.
I split my time between the chaotic city of Milan and the easterly Riviera Ligure. I spend most of my creative hours in the seaside village of Camogli, where I flee along with my colours whenever I can.
