Simona Marziani
I portray human beings. I approach the canvas with a mixed texture madewith gesso, pigments, marble powder, collage, fabrics, etc. I like to have anarticulate base on which to begin the gure with oil paint. This allows me tohave di erent transparent layers, where the realistic outline gets confusedand more abstract. Recently I have started to add a special resin to create adeeper, three-dimensional e ect, especially in my “mandala” series. I havebeen inspired by my many journeys, and use photographic material, mixedwith an unconscious dream world and my spiritual practices. Having grownup in Italy and studied classic art, I nd it easy to connect to middle age andrenaissance iconography, mixed with Asiatic symbols and concepts. My workcan be descriptive and decorative, searching for harmony and a kind ofpeaceful beauty. I was born in Milan and specialized in Illustration where Iworked several years in edition and advertising, my desire to paint in a largerscale brought me to collaborate with other artists on murals and trompel’oeil, and travel a lot. Was in 1995 where I began to focus on my personalcreative process, and approach oil painting. This bring me to have solo andgroup shows, and in 1997 I moved to Ibiza. A long collab
