Gianna Scarpello

At first, it was languages and translation, as the art to translate what others communicate; then came the language of art, to translate what I say... but with a brush stroke.

Born in Argentina. I graduated as an English Language Professor and Translator.

After working many years teaching and translating, I decided to resume a childhood passion: Painting. I signed up in a very renowned School of Art in Buenos Aires, The Guillermo Roux foundation.

In the last years, I have been mostly expressing myself with watercolors. I love the transparency of the layers, and the unique effect achieved by combining colors. My inspiration comes most of the times directly from Nature. I try to blend in by observing, taking pictures and drawing,

My favorite support is paper; also connected to Nature, it seduces me like no other.
Watercolors, that I can mix with ink, pastel, graphite, pencils, and even collage, allow me to produce a sincere image, by showing layers, traces and blunders. The beauty of a media that offers the quality of color difficult to compete with: unique in the sum of transparencies. Watercolor leads me to the challenge of letting flow, not at random, but in a controlled equilibrium.
Painting is, for me, an intimate and si...

Taller Escuela Guillermo Roux.
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
2008 - Drawing, with Architect and artist Teresa Durmuller
2009 - 2010 Painting with different techniques, with Anna Rank and Laura Olalde
2011 - Personal Project Development, with Teresa Durmuller, Marina Curci, Matías Ercole
2012 - 2017 Watercolor, Mentor: Marina Curci
2013 -2017 art clinic led by Alejandra Roux
2018 - present art clinic led by Leila Tschopp
2019 -watercolor workshops by Nicolás Lopez and Gonzalo Cid
2020 - watercolor workshop by Steve Fraser
2020 - drawing seminar by Veronica Gomez
2024 - art clinic at FUNDACION CAZADORES

Exhibitions

2018 - Centro Cultural Borges
from 2008-2017. Guillermo Roux Foundation
2017 - Collective exhibition at "La Casa de al Lado" Bs As.
2017 - Collective exhibition at Foro de las CIencias y las Artes, Buenos Aires.
2016 to 2024 -Collective exhibition at Lamroth Art Fair, Buenos Aires.

2014 - Award in Watercolor painting by Asociación Estimulo de Bellas Artes.

2014 - MIRA Art Festival. Centro Cultural Recoleta