Gina Print

Elisabetta Trevisan, inspired by the Renaissance and the Pre-Raphaelites with their infamous depiction of female figures in interior and exterior environments, has created a stunning oeuvre dominated by women with beautiful hair styles and flowing fabrics. Paying attention to detail, her figures are engaged with their surrounding environment and in some cases they even become an integral part of it. Her painstakingly attention to detail is further explored in the depiction of those environments, ranging from flowers, plants, the sea, the sky to interiors. The play between light and shadow further contributes to creating an atmospheric scenery for both the depicted figure and the viewer. What has enabled her to create such pictures - serene and full of vitality at the same time - is the use of tempera and water-soluble pencils. She has provided clear evidence of her talent with those two media, as can be seen by the airy and mythical - in a way - figures she has created. What one should also pay attention to is the still lives she has produced, which either form the subject of a picture on its own right or part of the background, complementing the sensuality of unique beauty of each work. Klairi Angelou, University of Bristol, 2013 Elisabetta Trevisan was born in 1957 in Merano, a town in northern Italy bordering on Austria. She attended the art school of Padua. Her father is a famous illustrator and cartoonist.She lives and works in Treviso (IT)She has always devoted herself mainly to painting. She realizes her paintings using Medium Density panels on which she works mixing different techniques: gouache, pastel, watercolour. However, she does not forget minor arts, as she also decorates on backed clay, glass, wood, fabrics, mural surfaces and self-made Papier Mach objects. She has also: contributed as an illustrator to many magazines, illustrated a children book on ecology in collaboration with Ente Parco Fiume Sile, painted a collectors pack of tarots (72 cards)ed. "Lo Scarabeo" Torino It, realized settings for animated films for the television.