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Artist Statement for Susanna Bertolacci
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I am a self-taught artist and started drawing at the very young age of two. Painting and drawing has always been a major part of my life, a part of me I am very passionate about. I have been a full-time artist for the past two years. I consider myself very fortunate to be doing what I love.
I work with two main mediums being soft pastels and oils. I like to stay true to these mediums, maintaining a soft romantic feel with the pastels, and textured, vibrant colour with oils. My palette is always minimal and most of my mixing is done on the canvas, wet on wet, to maintain vibrant colour and to achieve dense layering. Detail is paramount in every piece of artwork which is created. What you see from a distance is one aspect, up close becomes another. I paint the things I love, be it for the colour of my subject or the emotion it conjures within me. My personal aim is to capture the essense of my subject and hope to convey to the viewer it’s anima,
soul. I want the viewer to believe they could stroke the feathers of the flamingo, feel the firmness and roundness of a muscular torso or want to find a poppy field to stroll through. I hope to conjure within them a distant memory or a sense of serenity and calm they
can escape to from this sometimes hectic world. What we see on an everyday basis can sometimes be taken for granted, where it’s true and simple beauty is not appreciated. Receating what I see and compacting it onto a canvas with a main focus, hopefully, gives the viewer a new appreciation of the subject.
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