Learning to fly (a) Painting

Born in Rieti, Italy 1965. He studied in Viterbo, Italy, starting at the Artistic Lyceum Tuscia, and graduating, in 1991, at the Fine Art Academy Lorenzo Da Viterbo, where he obtained a degree in Painting. In 1992 he moved to the UK where he worked both as an artist and an Art Lecturer at the Liverpool Community College. Since 2001 he lives and works in the West of Ireland. His work features in several public and private collections in Italy, Poland, Sweden, Israel, England,Ireland, Spain,Greece, Germany and USA. He has exhibited widely in Europe and Australia. Throughout his artistic career, he has worked and exhibited alongside artists from different backgrounds; from visual art to theatre and musical: Remo Brindisi; Umberto Mastroianni; Sergio Piccoli; Hughie O’Donoghue; Francesco Mencaroni; Ellen Stewart “La MAMA”; Tom Horgan; Liliane Montevecchi; Joel Silberman; Sheila Dabney; Kate Dezina. With regard to his painting techniques and his artwork, he employes materic/textured surfaces and layering of colours, creating a depth, which aims to invite the viewers’ participation in the space of the paintings. Since 2006 he has been working on a fusion between paintings and music, this fusion it is not the mere representation of one emotions by listening to a piece of music and then translate it into a painting; but it happens in the technical execution of the painting itself; where the sound generates its own design/pattern on the canvas through its own sound vibrations.