"Sweet Vortex" Artwork - Limited Edition of 9

"I use beauty to denounce, colour to heal, and materials to tell the story of our fragile balance with the world."

Fiona Sartoretto Verna is an Italian contemporary artist and architect, born in Turin and based in Rome where she has her studio.

Growing up in a family deeply connected to architecture, design and painting, she developed an early interest in the relationship between colour, form, space and human perception. She graduated in Architecture from Sapienza University of Rome and studied painting under American artist AJ Finley McRee during her years in South Carolina. Her artistic education also includes studies at RUFA in Rome under her artteacher Simonetta Gagliano.

Her influences include Georgia O'Keeffe, Carla Accardi, Giacomo Balla and Chiharu Shiota, whose explorations of organic forms, abstraction, movement, memory and human experience resonate with her artistic research.

Working across oil painting, acrylic, mixed media, Plexiglass, aluminium-based supports and digital techniques, she explores the relationship between physical materials and immaterial experiences.

Her work has been exhibited in Italy, including a solo exhibition in Rome's historic Via Margutta, accompanied by an official catalogue documenting her artistic production. Several works from her Vortici -Vortex series have been acquired for private collections.

She was selected among the ten finalists of the ArteIN Prize and the jury included her works in the Combat Prize 2026 catalogue. ARTIST'S VISION

For Sartoretto Verna, art is not simply an image to contemplate. It is an invitation to question appearances, explore emotions and discover what lies beyond the visible.

The image is only the beginning.