"Kintsugi Soul" Painting

Luisa Diaz Chamorro (b. 1970, Málaga, Spain) is a figurative painter based in Rivoli, near Turin, Italy. She discovered a passion for drawing and painting as a child, making portraits of family and friends from life from the age of ten.
At fifteen she began her training under portrait painter Antonio Montiel, in the Pasaje Chinitas in Málaga, where she learned oil painting and figure study from life. She went on to study technical drawing and, in 1994, graduated in Mechanical Engineering — the same year she moved to Turin for work. Painting remained a constant throughout this period; she continued to study at art schools in every city she lived in, including Málaga, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and Turin.
From 2012 she began spending time in the Chisone Valley, in the Piedmontese Alps, where she painted more intensively, working across supports such as stone and wood and creating murals; she later opened a studio in Usseaux. In 2017 she discovered watercolor, a technique she has continued to develop under master painters in Italy and abroad.
In 2019 she committed fully to art as a professional practice, focusing on oil, watercolor and soft pastel, and opened a second studio in Rivoli. She continues to paint en plein air, and also leads international watercolor retreats and courses.