Paola Cenci

Paola Cenci is from Perugia Italy, without formal training in art she is a talented, versatile and purely self-taught artist.
She does not feel tied to any one style but she invents her own techniques to express her different topics in very different ways.
She credits the varied cultural and ethnic influences she experienced living in different places; Pisa, Florence and Rome as well as living abroad in Germany with giving her a more imaginative and experimental approach to her art.
As her interest in 'Quadri d'Arredo'(this is how I call my paintings) grew Paola started to work first with wood and then fabrics of various types. Her textured paintings evolved from her artistic need to physically "feel" the picture.
Her later "˜quadri polimaterici' or mixed media paintings, undoubtedly more mature are the result of further experimentation.
They vary in structure, depth and use of different materials. In these the surface of the work itself is the painting. The canvases sink, rise and overlap.
They are a metaphor for how what is seen on the surface and what is beyond it can be very different.
Throughout her development, Paola has never abandoned her other styles, including the more classical naif.
Unlike most who ...

Self taught, attended Accademie des beaux arts
Binche ( Belgium)

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