My “Zen collection” and “Apartment therapy” works carry a therapeutic quality: for myself in the process of creating them, and for the viewer who absorbs their energy.

Art has always been part of my journey: a safe, restorative space and a form of emotional refuge.

Zen Collection Statement

This collection of Zen-inspired paintings is rooted in stillness taking you into a meditative state.

Created in fluid blue gouache washes on raw canvas, each work embraces the natural movement

of water: uncontrolled, intuitive, and deeply meditative.

I am drawn to untreated, natural, organic materials such as raw canvas and brown jute, pigments,

inks, water, allowing the surface itself to remain alive. These textures anchor the work in nature,

offering a sense of grounding and tactility that contrasts with the softness of the painted forms.

The result is a dialogue between structure and flow, earth and water.

The paintings emerge from a personal, almost ritualistic process.

These aqueous shapes are not imposed, but allowed. In this way, the work becomes “soul-

making”: a quiet space where both artist and viewer can slow down, reset, and reconnect.

Rather than seeking bold statements, the collection explores balance and calm. Minimalism is for

me what remains after the excess that has been gently stripped away. A kind of “compostezza

sofisticata”: a composed, sophisticated simplicity. Simplicity is intentional, and never to be taken

for granted.

Installed within a room layered with aged book pages, the works enter into a conversation with

words. Words surround the viewer, yet the paintings offer silence. Just as pages awaken when we

lose ourselves in reading, these works come alive through quiet contemplation as art comes alive

when contemplated and observed with interest.

Together, they create a delicate tension between what is spoken and what is felt: expression and

introspection.

Apartment Therapy Figurative Collection Statement

In contrast to the stillness of my Zen works, this figurative series embodies movement, intimacy,

and the quiet energy of everyday life like the other side of the same coin. Together, they exist in

myself like a kind of yin and yang: calm and vitality, silence and presence.

This body of work, which is called Apartment Therapy, explores contemporary domestic

moments,unfolding within the privacy of the home. Figures inhabit spaces shaped by their own

sensibilities: rooms filled with objects, colours, and textures that reflect what brings them comfort,

pleasure, and ease.

I am drawn to these personal contemporary interiors as emotional landscapes. They are not just

physical settings, but extensions of the self-places where one can soften, reset, and feel held.

Within them, the ordinary becomes quietly significant: a gesture, a pause or a solitary moment.

There is a sense of lightness and play in these compositions, yet beneath it lies something

essential: the human need for refuge. In a world that often feels chaotic and overstimulating, these

spaces become small sanctuaries, offering both escape and reconnection.

Like my more minimal works, these paintings invite the viewer to slow down. But here, instead of

silence, there is a gentle hum of cool life, fun, superficial, warm, imperfect, and deeply present.