“Into the peace of wild things”
I create peaceful wildlife art, luminous works with goldleaf backgrounds on canvas inspired by the serenity of nature.
Nature is a marvelous place of never-ending inspiration to me. It is where Beauty began, where we all belong, and where we all come back to when we need to have a recharging contemplation.
My subjects are the colorful variety of living things, tiny and fragile yet surprisingly resourceful.
I start my work with photography and drawings. I explore my subjects by doing research online, in books, or in person, and I mainly use oil on gold leaves and textured backgrounds.
I often combine different media and layers of primers to give my works a textured feel. In fact, I often work on a multifaceted surface where colours and light can interact in unexpected ways.
My colors combine warm and cold shades for the sense of balance they give me, primarily blue-green with red-yellow.
I love to work with gold leaf. It is a heritage from my experience as a decorator and gilder. I am fascinated by gold's capacity to reflect light in different shades, giving back different feelings every time you look at it.
Through the gold on the background, I intend to create a waterfall of warm, enveloping light that inspires a sense of serenity, beauty, and belonging.
I am also deeply inspired by Chinoiseries for their joyful, delicate design, as well as traditional religious Icons with gilded backgrounds for their sense of peace, knowledge and contemplation.
Gold, in fact, has been used throughout the centuries to symbolize the transcendent, the spiritual world, the union between heaven and earth, and it is this contemplative state I aim, to give the viewer the space of a serene meditation on the world we belong to, a contemplation that evokes a reverent feeling towards the serenity of nature, a sense of joy, beauty and peace.
I am a wildlife and gold leaf artist born in Rome, Italy.
I grew up loving all the beautiful art I constantly saw around me, the colours, the quiet Villas, and all the contradictions of a big city.
I started drawing when I was a child, and I never stopped.
Since 2000, I have been selected for several solo and group exhibitions, festivals, and workshops, such as the recent group exhibitions by the Association of Animal Artists at the Rose Paterson Gallery (Shifnal, UK 2024) and The Station Art Gallery (Richmond, UK 2024 ) or the one by Garte Milano at Palazzo Regione Lombardia (Milan IT 2024), and the Wildlife Artist of the Year (UK 2021).
I am also a member of the Association of Animal Artists, and I have been selected as a finalist for the Wildlife Artist of the Year 2021 by David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation in collaboration with BBC Wildlife Magazine.
After my Art graduation, I started working in decorative arts and conservation workshops, collaborating with architects and interior designers and mainly working on commissions. During this period, I learned decoration for interior techniques and fascinating traditional techniques like Fresco, Grotesque, egg tempera, and gilding.
In 2012, I moved to Bristol, UK. Here, I learned many invaluable lessons, like the challenge and enrichment of meeting different cultures.
I also got married, and I had my daughter in 2017.
I exhibited in several galleries and open exhibitions and worked as a decorative workshop assistant and conservation assistant in several Studios between Bristol and London.
During this experience, I encountered other beautiful techniques, such as verre eglomise, gilding, and painting on glass and mirrors.
In 2020, we moved to Vienna, Austria, and in 2023, after long wandering, we returned to Rome, near family and friends, where I paint from my home studio.
My work is figurative and nature-inspired. It is published in specialized art magazines, books, and catalogs.
Some of my pieces are present in private collections in Italy, the UK, France, Spain, Germany, Brazil, the USA, and Canada.
EDUCATION
2008 Master Degree Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Master of Arts (110/110 cum laude)
2006 Degree Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, (110/110)
