Girl with a horse

Oil and acrylic on canvas, 145 cm x 130 cm I paint starting from photography, but in my paintings there is no will to copy the photographic image with hyperrealist trait. In my travels and in my encounters I accumulate and archive images that I will later be able to transform into paintings. My paintings must contain a story, an undisclosed story. The details of paintings fill a void, creating a new and even more evident one : the disappearance of life, the stillness, the silence. In portraits the intention is to give the figures a new existence, nourished by memory.

Bio
I was born in Milan in 1972, but my early years were spent in Palo Alto California, a place that shaped my worldview. Later, my family returned to Italy, settling first in Lucca and then in Florence. It was in Florence that I began my formal artistic journey, studying sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts. Sculpture gave me a foundation, but soon I felt the pull toward painting as my primary mode of expression and true focus. Painting allows me to explore themes that resonate deeply with me - time, memory, and the ephemeral nature of existence. I often begin with photographs taken du