Curly Mind (Minte Creata) Painting

I am infinite. And I have been infinite ever since I first laid the first stroke of brush on a canvas. Every line, shape and color that covers my canvas comes from a living organism from the inside that I call inspiration. It feeds with people, with dreams, with realities, with reactions, with images, with almost anything that makes it tremble and shiver with desire to expose itself. To the world. To the unknown. To the outer life. To become...infinite. It all started when I was 8 years old, under the guidance of my uncle, who was a professional painter. I have never taken art classes other than my uncle's, who took the time to teach me all the basics and gave me the courage to try out whatever came to my mind. After pursuing a career of teaching, I founded a small foreign language school where I have been teaching 4 different languages for 20 years. I also took part in the co-founding and running of an art hub, organising art shows for the local artists and art classes with myself and different trainers. For 5 years, I have been happily managing also my own fashion brand, No Asha Da, together with my friend, Laura, where we make clothes and accessories with high quality prints of my paintings. My art is mostly abstract, I am definitely drawn to strong contrasts, as I am a woman of contrasts myself. Sometimes, living now mostly in Tuscany, I feel very drawn to landscapes, especially the ones that trigger distant memories from distant lives. What I find most intriguing is to watch how differently people identify themselves or are triggered so differently by my shapes or colours or titles. This, I think, is my biggest joy as an artist.