"Gold Sabbath - Pure Blackness" Painting

Luana Aprile (b. 1986) is an Italian artist based in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Her passion for drawing and painting began in childhood and later led her to graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan in 2010. After her studies, she spent nearly a decade traveling the world, experiences that shaped both her perspective and her inner world. Since 2018, Luana has made Maastricht her home, dedicating herself to painting and creative exploration. Working mainly with acrylic on canvas, she creates textured surfaces and layered hues that evoke dreamlike and emotional atmospheres. Her work often reflects the interplay between light and shadow, fragility and resilience, restlessness and harmony. Beyond painting, she also explores photography and digital art, often blending portraiture with abstraction to merge reality and imagination. For Luana, art is both introspection and transformation, a way to translate emotions and inner landscapes into visual forms that invite reflection and connection. ARTIST STATEMENT: My work grows out of the tension between restlessness and calm, light and shadow. With a sensitive spirit, I have long sought a way to turn inner unease into balance, and painting became that path. It allows me to transform difficult emotions into something harmonious, revealing the beauty that exists even in contrast. In my early years I focused on black and white, using stark contrasts to explore raw emotions. Today, I embrace color instinctively, drawn to hues that bring me clarity and calm. What I once pursued with charcoal’s gradients, I now expand through acrylics, creating dreamlike atmospheres where softness and intensity coexist. Guided by intuition, I move freely between abstraction, portraiture, and other visual languages. Flowing textures, rounded shapes, and blurred transitions form a recurring vocabulary that reflects both fragility and resilience. Ultimately, my art is a personal journey of dreaming and reflection, but also an offering: a space of color and light where viewers can pause, reflect, and connect with their own inner feelings.