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What can I say about my paintings?

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Lots of colors,

Often primary, bright colors that I like to use crude to trap the viewer’s visual sensations. Why? To stir curiosity. A wide range of red: crimson purple and orange shades with "traffic lights" tones made of vermilion and fuschia pink. Many blue: indigo, ultramarine, Cobalt and Prussia blue as well as bright turquoise. All blue tones correspond to colors of the sky, the light and the water, subjects I frequently include into my paintings. Many yellows too. I use them as openings or gateways between colors. I also like to add different yellow tones (from lemon to orange) to warm up or energize a canvas or to modify the atmosphere by lighting it up or darkening it with tiny amounts of different yellow tones. In the same way, pure pigments added with parsimony become visual hooks to stop the eye in a specific point of the painting. The use of crude colors allows me to give a voice to all the color tones in the painting, like they were singing in harmony, and therefore they create the illusion that colors can be heard. Like in a song, the brightness of my colors may sometimes be hard-hitting, but without the intention of being aggressive. I just want to bring emotions up, and I hope that my bright paintings will make people more optimistic and will steal them a smile.

A search for contrast and diversity in the style...

I’ll do this by applying colors with a painting knife to give a different texture to the colors, and also by creating subtle, softer gradations of light and color in watercolors. After I found the right atmosphere, it is time "to dress" the colors like when one completes and enhances an outfit with some accessories, by using little “tricks of the trade”, such as the mark left by the tip of a knife blade, the trace of a brush-stroke, the addition of an unexpected color or by modifying the canvas texture to direct the light and the eye to a specific point.This is my greatest pleasure! And this because, at that point, painting becomes a stimulating game and a challenge during which I experiment with oil paints, acrylics, pastels, watercolors as well as mixed media.

Many subjects or "I do not need a subject"

Because, for me, everything may become an excuse for painting. Indeed, I need just to find a detail that stimulates my imagination. And for this to happen, it is important to look at everyday objects/sceneries/life with a new eye; to make a pause and to take time for reflection. Please, consider this web site as an attempt to convince you that "everything" can be seen afresh and from an unconventional point of view.

(Many thanks to Elisabetta Andermarcher for her help in english translation)