STEFANIA•BOIANO

I'm an Italian multidisciplinary landscape artist based in London. I work with painting, collage and photography.

I create evocative landscapes devoid of human presence as an invitation to the viewer to treasure and guard the pure beauty of our natural environment, to worship its sacred essence, to embrace its untamed spirit. 

The inspiration for the atmospheric landscapes starts in my childhood. 
I grew up in a small hilly town in Southern Italy in the middle of vineyards and wild fields. I used to play outdoors, borrowing toys from mother nature, from branches to animal bones. I recall vast horizons, the voice of the winds, the scents and the intense hues of the world around me.

What you experience in childhood stays with you forever.
I now find myself travelling to faraway destinations in the wilderness or where the land is not significantly modified by the humans, and creating landscapes using rainwater, natural pigments, minerals,  feathers, leaves, twigs, bones, stones.
 
I always carry watercolour sketchbooks with me to record my explorations while travelling. By observing and noting , I see how everything is interconnected. By doing so, my trips become a source of philosophical and spiritual insight. 
 
Once back in my studio my process takes a meditative dimension. I visualise the landscapes to portray with the help of minimal piano or biologically inspired electroacoustic music and let my selective memory bring back mood, shapes, lines, colours, feelings  to evoke the emotions I’ve experienced in that particular scene. 

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In the painting process I co-create with nature. I make marks to be freely  continued by the natural forces such as gravity and capillarity like musicians in a jazz jam session. 

I regularly show my work in exhibitions in UK and internationally and collaborate with interior designers.  
My paintings are owned across the world, have been featured in book designs and recently appeared in The Flux Review magazine. 

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