Biography:
Luigia Zilli is a published professional artist with a long career in the visual arts, showing in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and Canada, having her works held in many private and corporate collections worldwide. With an extensive training in sculpting and painting, including techniques like fresco and trompe-l’œil, influenced by different Masters from the past, she mostly enjoys working with acrylics on a textured ground exploring the versatility and flexibility of this medium. Routinely she uses a limited but very warm palette of colours ranging from the earthy ones to the bright reds and sunny yellows like those seen in her signature flowers fields. Her favorite subject matter are for sure cycling and the bicycles, and her artworks are very popular and have been published in a book and several newspapers and magazines around the world.
See also her bicycle art at www.bicycleart.ca
See also her bicycle art at www.bicycleart.ca
Artist's Statement:
"Years ago I started to paint flowers fields attempting to virtually escape winter and the rainy days, I wanted to "create" summer around me, immerse myself in warm and bright colours. I also love the view of the Canadian countryside, vast fields which give me a feeling of peace and powerlessness at the same time. I’m very attracted by the beautiful colours of the leaves when autumn comes, it’s a magnet for my eyes and a source for my imagination. My inspiration comes mostly from nature and from simple things; music is also an important ingredient, it gives me a great energy in creating, it brings out my memories and passion. When I’m painting, it places me in a different world and dimension, it can change a rainy day into a beautiful sunny one. Inspired by the works of great Masters, I like to paint only things that I have experienced or that mean something to me: I have to feel them. The aim is to share with the viewers the emotions I live creating my works: when they look at my paintings, I’d like them to feel joyful, I’d like them to feel the warmth of the light and scents of the nature, I’d like them to feel the motion of the wheels, I’d like for them to feel close to the subject they are viewing. Because of my technique, I work at several paintings at the same time, applying layers of material and paint and waiting for them to dry before the next step. My intention is to create on my paintings a resemblance of fresco, I like the texture and the old and worn out appearance that is what we see in ancient frescos but depicting more contemporary subjects".
