Simone Romani

I am an Italian professional artist, born in 1969.
I love nature, sunlight, the shadows of trees.
I used nature to learn to paint, I discovered nature by painting.
My pictorial research on nature began thirty years ago, in the woods of the Tuscan hills.
Since then I have created countless studies en plein air, which I rework and synthesize in my studio.
I am searching for a quick painting style, in one go and without hesitation, which can convey all the sensations that nature offers me.
My goal is to paint pictures that, once hung, are able to irradiate the entire room with light, like a window wide open to nature. And I would like them to return the heat of summer, the frost of winter, the warm wind of spring.
I love walking a path and reproducing it in my paintings. The path transforms into an invitation for the viewer to enter the painting. I often think of the path as a life journey, with goals in the distance and experiences left behind.
I am in love with grass, ditches and marshes.
I am obsessed with narrow "passages" between the bushes of a forest or the reeds of a swamp. I pass through them safely and happily, always imagining I am entering another dimension.
My paintings are not simply landscapes. They are compositions tha...

Degree in Visual Arts - Painting - at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence with a thesis entitled: "The painted landscape, the experienced landscape. Man-nature entropy on the paths of Art”.

2019
Massarosa (Lucca), Cultural Center "La Brilla", May 4th - June 2nd
collective exhibition "Dis-Similarities", catalog.

2018
Lucca, historic center, permanent personal exhibition in the Art Gallery via del Portico, 1st October 2017 - 31st July 2018
solo exhibition.

2017
Massarosa (Lucca), Villa Gori, June 23 - July 9
patronage of the Municipality of Massarosa, Department of Culture
solo exhibition "Painted Massarosa - Painting notes en plein air of the most beautiful place in the world", catalog.

2012
Viareggio (Lucca), Headquarters of the Versilia Massaciuccoli Reclamation Consortium, permanent personal exhibition, from January 27, 2007 to May 2012
patronage of the Municipalities of Massarosa, Viareggio and Vecchiano
solo exhibition "Embankments, Art Paths in Reclamation", catalog.

2010
Florence, Museo degli Innocenti, Academy of Fine Arts, May 21 - June 16
collective exhibition "Start Point 2010", catalog.

2008
Florence, Former Church of Saint Carlo dei Barnabiti, Academy of Fine Arts, April 10-20
collective exhibition "Cliffs", catalog.

Florence, Former Church of Saint Carlo dei Barnabiti, Academy of Fine Arts, June 5-15
collective exhibition "Cliffs", catalog.

Turin, Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, June 10 - Septemb...