Blooming after the darkness Painting

I was born in Italy, but I have been living in Greece on the island of Crete for the last 10 years, where I opened my personal art studio. I’m an autodidact with 20 years experience , working with found materials, principally canvas but also wood and stone . I use oils, acrylic, pens, crayons, wax and various varnishes to create emergent forms , generally figurative but also abstract. Working without formal art education, I was, however, influenced by the work of my art teacher Paolo Soragna and from him I learned to detect form in the existing structure of the found material: grain in wood, fissures in rock, even scribbles or impurities in paper or cardboard. The form emerges as a deliberate act of imagination or discovery ,that may become defined as a figure or theme, but always retains some ambiguity. There may be some influence from 'primitive' or 'outsider' art in my art. I work with themes of emotional emergence , organic growth, emotional bonding and solidarity (including maternity and physical/spiritual love and concepts). The mode of expression tends towards freedom and the images are drawn from the immediate environment, the mountains of the Cretan interior and the multi-faceted global society where I live. Emotions, emerge, spontaneously in my art leaving to everyone the opportunity to imagine the story that in silence i wrote in my art.works