Alberto Pavan

Born in Veneto, italy in 1958, living and working in London.

After a few unexpected turns in my life that changed me in many different ways, I was able to get n touch with my dormant creative self in 2018.

In that year, I was no longer afraid to start calling myself an artist, before, by describing myself as such, i was afraid it would have taken me toward unwanted destinations.

But I arrived to a point of having to get out my pictures, because I had to. They were coming out of me.

I dedicated myself to learning and practicing my craft, working silently and in isolation up to 2021. After the pandemic and lockdown, I decided to move for 5 months a year to Brazil, on s surfer’s beach, which it is rustic but very comfortable: the beach of Pipa, in the north-east of Brazil. This influenced my art very much. My palette has become bolder, richer, my subjects alive with mythology, folklore, legends and characters. The backgrounds sunny and dreamy. I felt that I no longer needed to work in silence.

In London I work from my studio in South London and I have chosen to express elements of the Collective Unconscious. i paint archetypes and symbols interacting and dwelling in urban settings.

Update: after having developed an understa...

My education has been informal. For personal reasons i didn’t have the formal education expected from an artist. Not a good student to begin with (I was diagnosed dyslexic and border line ADHD only in adulthood), after having achieved a Maturity Diploma, in 1981 I enrolled on The Academy of Fashion and costume design, in Rome. I worked in a few theatrical productions and I took part to some of the events of the Roman ~Summer in 1984, 1985, 1986. I presented my own collections of ready-to-wear.
In 1987, I came in London. It took me some time to establish myself as a Londoner and, in doing so, I decided that to be an artist had some intrinsic dangers, i wanted to avoid. I began to re-train as a therapist and I obtain, in 2002in therapeutic counselling and a diploma in CBT in 2003. In 2004 i was employed as a drugs counsellor in one of the leading organisations helping substance users in London. I developed myself as a therapist and worked in this field up to 2019, when the Pandemic took place and I decided I was no longer able to continue with my career. I took courses online and, after the restrictions were removed, I took classes in Adult education.

I describe myself as an autodidatta.

I am now in the process to acquire the abi...

On-line exhibition on Outside-in
Instagram Albertopavanart
Permanent exhibition of my work in my flat in South London and in Pipa Riogrande do Norte