A quick retrospective of my work
During the period of the COVID lockdown, I began to turn a distracted and mindless hobby into my main activity. . In that period of misery and isolation I met my new artist self. I shredded the skin of the recovery practitioner and underneath I found the artist.
In March 2022 I spent 3 months in Pipa, a surfers beach on the north-east cost of Brazil, This tropical experience has influenced my work profoundly. My palett became tropical, my themes infused of the local mystic tradition and beliefs: a dance of old African tribal gods appeared to me wanting to be given a shape and a face; dance, music, tradition of a new land inhabited by the African oldest population….so many elements were asking to be illustrated. .
At my return I began to include oil paintings in my media. My love for oil was at first sight. I understood the intrinsic potential of oil. I could have build a picture just with one colour, forming the image just by using different brush strokes. The plasticity of oil is unique and I found it deeply satisfactory.
I also enjoy working digitally, using Procreator. Digital can offer me so many possibilities. Like to pastiche with the classics
a retrospective of work, in no particular order.
A girl - Oil on board - 40X60 £ 250 This is one of my first painting I painted as an artist. I am very fond of it. It was painted in 2020 during the pandemic, She is vibrant and on your face. But i think she is a sweet girl.
Mystic Boll
Part of a tritico. I call the 3 paintings Le Mantellate. Le Mantellate are the sisters, (nuns) that run Roma female prison. In this painting they represent some organised matriarchs independent from patriarchal society. I think the collective unconscious is in constant mutation, evolution! The iconic horned hat of Maleficent has penetrated into many people as a symbol of some powerful femininity, Because I was attracted by this character, created very recently, but evocative of arcane secrets, I wanted to use it in this paintings.
Last of 3 paintings. I don’t think I should say what this painting is all about to me. I called it Apoteosis.
