"Inner Fire" Painting

Biography:

I'm an 33 years old Italo-Brazilian artist living in Miami. I attended Istituto Marangoni Milano for a Fashion Design intensive program and Fine Arts at Accademia di Belli Arti di Brera. I also worked as an apprentice at Atelier Lou Borghetti (Porto Alegre - Brazil) to refine my studies and practice. Beginning of my education as a fashion designer I realized the fashion industry was not the correct setting to explore my creative impulses, and then I decided to pursue a painting career. I fell in love with art when I was very young. Many years later, it is still what gives me strength when pursuing my artistic career.
My background has always been very influential in my art; since my parents are Brazilian and Italian, they naturally influenced me. However, as I got older, living on two different continents, Miami (in America) and Milan (in Europe), made me realize that certain characteristics of people from each part of the world stood out to me. This has caused me to incorporate these cultural influences into my art.


Artist Statement:

My paintings are gestural and aesthetically similar to artworks from the Abstract Expressionist movement, the canvases are filled with highly textural brush marks and color application. As a lover of art and history, my work gains inspiration from it and in a variety of styles. My inspiration also comes from nature and my inner feelings. I paint abstract and abstract figurative works with mainly acrylic and oil paints but I experience and have appreciation for additional mediums.

My process is very intuitive, not systematic. When an idea hits me, I run with it. For me, the whole art creation process is very emotional, so everything flows naturally without thinking about things too much. Once an idea has been created, every brushstroke becomes a moment of self-reflection, leading to even more new ideas emerging from that original one.

For me, painting has always been an outlet to express how I feel and its emotion. It's not about what I see or think people want to see, but about what I feel and how that emotion shapes my artwork. My paintings are expressions of my imagination and memories. The subjects are often distorted, exaggerated, or sometimes completely abandoned or abstracted to convey my inner feelings or ideas. This may be seen as chaotic by some, but it's actually very structured.