(white fly - oil on canvas)After football this morning my daughter and I went to the centre of York to the opening of my friend Giuliana's art exhibition at the Pyramid Gallery in York. The exhibition is held in a beautiful XIV century building in Stonegate and we felt a bit embarrassed as we were partly covered in mud from the football pitch. Giuliana is a great Italian artist who's lived for over 25 years in the UK. She paints watercolours, oils and monoprints inspired to her childhood memories in Tuscany and reminiscent of her father’s mosaic studio. She also gets her inspiration from the Yorkshire coast and countryside and she’s experimenting with new media.
(sea blue - watercolor)I fell in love with Giuliana's work, even before meeting her. We had just moved to England and I was feeling very homesick, especially because of the miserable spring weather. During a weekend visit in the lovely village of Helmsley, we got caught by a sudden shower and we sheltered in a small art gallery. Some of Giuliana’s paintings were exhibited there, among them this fantastic oil painting below.
(Oil painting with hand painted frame. It is inspired by the Florence flood in 1966 - I think - and the two acrobats on the left represent the people’s hard work and ‘juggling’ to get their homes and city back on track again) Although my husband and I have totally different tastes with regard to art, we immediately agreed on this. To cut a long story short we bought the painting, managed to track down Giuliana to buy some more directly from her and we were so lucky that together with some beautiful art works we also found some great friends in Giuliana and her husband Gordon.
My living room looks like a small gallery of Giuliana's works! Here is a watercoulour of my beloved Venezia:
Please find some samples of Giuliana’s newest work below:
(Ligurian summer, oil on canvas)
(forest breeze - mixed media, with beach sand)
(Tuscan blue, watercolor)
(poppy field, watercolor)
(ancient path, watercolor)
(Tuscan memories, mixed media with sand and mosaics)
If you wish to see more, please visit Giuliana's website at www.giulianalazzerini.com)
21 comments:
Lovely! I like her style too! And her subjects. I hope she continues experimenting with mixed media — it adds some very interesting texture to the pieces. I love 'Forest Breeze' because of it. Thank you for introducing her work to us, Antonella!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Beautiful. I generally like more modern art, and her colors are lovely!
Beautiful, esp. Venezia's watercolor. :)
Happy Women's Day! It's snowing here today. Ciao!
@Hilda: Thanks for that. I like the mised media too. She mixes up the sand from the Yorkshire coast where she lives with colour and the texture is really very interesting. The last painting of this entry has got also a mosaic feature on the right (difficult to see well in the photo) which reminds of her mosaic workshop. Ciao. A.
@Beth: Glad you like them The colours are really vibrant and strong and reproduce well the part of Italy (Tuscany) where Giuliana comes from.
@Kia: The Venezia's watercolor is oen of my favourite too. It was featured in a German art calender in 2007 published by KORSCH VERLAG for sale all over in Europe, so it's pretty famous too!!! We had all sorts of weather today too, from sunshine to strong winds to hailstones and snow!!! Ciao.
Thank you for sharing these, they are beautiful. I can imagine that richness of the colors really comes to life when a picture is on a wall in your home. Such beautiful paintings are lovely things to have as part of your life.
I think I have seen some of this artist's work in the Biscuit Factory in Newcastle, I really liked it.
I too enjoyed looking at the lovely paintings by Giuliana ,what talent ,I particularly like the one with poppys ,arent you lucky to own some of her work ? ..love Jan xx
The last one is my favorite. Hope you are having a lovely weekend.xo
They are fabulous and remind me of a tiny place we went to when I was working in Umbria - Portovenere. Thanks for reminding me.
It's a lovely story that you became friends with someone whos art you admire so much. I think it makes it even more special.
Lovely cheerful colours.
Helenna
Mine, with art, it's a strange and very personal feeling. It's extremely rare I like at first sight some painting (last time happened at Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam... So you can realize what I mean). You believe or not I suddenly *adored* these paints. I don't know if they are expensive and if che can mail them abroad but I will write her because I love them "too much" (italian way to say "a lot")
OFF TOPIC: ciao Antonella, grazie per la visita e buon inizio settimana anche a te. Sai che non sono riuscita a trovare la tua e-mail? *blush* Per quanto riguarda la mia: se guardi la pag. del blog, in basso noterai due mele. Cliccando su quella con la “busta” troverai il mio indirizzo e-mail. :) Oggi sono un po’ di corsa (sono in biblioteca), alla prossima! :)
What a nice post! Thanks for turning us on to new (to me) artist.
xoxo
ym
I like her style a lot. I love the Pyramid Gallery too (in fact we bought our engagement and wedding rings there and usually pop in there when we're in York). You're very lucky to have your own personal artist!
They`re lovely paintings Antonella, just the sort of thing I would love to hang on my wall. I really do like them! :o)
Love and Hugs
Sandra xxxx
I loved the post. Thank you for sharing the beautiful art. I love the calming affect the soothing colors produce. The texture pieces are were really lovely as well.
I actually did go to the website as well.
Hugs,
Laura
I can understand why you enjoy her artworks so much. For me they give a feeling of peace and serenity. Just lovely.
Best wishes,
Mervat
xo
what a lovely selection of artworks, very nice styles and colours.
Love the Poppy Fields and the Ancient Path paintings in particular!
Thanks for your visit to my English blog! Among the works you show here, I like the first one and the Venetian piece the most. Is there anything such as a "Venezia daily photo", do you know? cheers Sven
@Everybody: Thank you for all your lovely and appreciative comments. I've left it too late to reply to all of you here. Apologies. Ciao. A.
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