What prompted you to become an artist? What is your background ?
What to imagine allows me to become an artist the love of passion simply turns my emotions only having to support myself to be heard, writing poems and painting my license to live a more adequate life with my feelings for others and myself allow me to share my emotions for me to paint and breathe its on the same plane. My journey I was able to meet in my youth a great artist, who allowed me to give me the good practice of painting and evening court in the beautiful to deepen my passion for 2 years then I have always painted as an autodidact since.
What are the 3 things that differentiate you from other artists?
I am a self-taught artist I stay in my bubble most of the time, but also like to give me challenges that take me out of my comfort zone and launch me into a diversification of the painting work with knives I love but I like all the techniques so I practice them quite often but what defines me is the love of life and sharing with the world around me and especially nature.
Where does your inspiration come from?
Life and passion but of course most of the time my experiences, which my own life gave me to know with the moments of joy and suffering especially in my earliest childhood daughter of Italian immigrants, the memories of a country left reluctantly.
Tell us about the conception of your works, do you have a long preparatory work or is it quite spontaneous?
My paintings come most of the time spontaneously, but sometimes I prepare my work in advance following an image engraved in my memory or through outdoor work where I often do photographic reports, a passion that I very often use to painting as inspiration or simply I sit with my easel in a place that I like and I scribble a sketch and I paint on the spot.
What do you want to show through your work?
What I want to show through my work, my feelings when I paint and the beauty of the world seen from my own eyes but also that each person feels when their eyes land on the canvas their own escapes like a walk or every moment brings you something new.
In your work do you use techniques or materials that are out of the ordinary?
In my work, the techniques are multiple, whether watercolor, acrylic or oil, work with brushes, knives, fingers, rags, crumpled paper, sponge, according to my inspiration, which seems to me the most appropriate to represent oneself. that I see on the web; The materials that I use are yes various an example given of the volume of a moving dress I recover potato nets, but also cardboard sand and many others ....
Do you have a favorite format? Why ?
Yes I do have a format that I prefer when I want to defend myself at most 1 meter × 1 meter a large format gives me more pleasure.
What difficulties do you encounter in your work?
Everything and nothing because I think that painting is a gift and what I pose on the canvas comes from my heart and I only do what I know how to do and yes sometimes what I do does not please me so I pose I let my expression rest and come from time to time to see my painting and suddenly like a light I see where I want to go.
How do you work? At home, in a shared workshop, in your own workshop?
I work in a small workshop at my private home.
Does the work of an artist lead you to travel a lot?
No, not for the moment .
What was the best moment of your career?
When I was able to acquire the certainty that painting would always be part of me and the recognition of my art through the eyes of others.
How do you see your work in ten years?
My wildest dream in 10 years for a museum to exhibit my paintings.
What are you currently working on? Are you planning an exhibition soon?
At the moment I am taking a lot of photos for a future painting that will take up the autumn theme.
If you could have created a masterpiece of art history, which one would you choose? Why ?
"La baigneuse" by Camille Pissarro" because this technique fascinates me and the painting represents a period that has always made me dream.
If you could invite a famous artist for dinner (dead or alive), which one would you choose? Why ?
So for me I would invite Pissarro and Picasso.
Olimpia Gaia Martinelli
