Butterflies

“ my thoughts that are like butterflies: the butterfly is a moment, it lasts only a day, however it flies and gives you so many feelings “

It is not always easy to express ourselves and be accepted for who we are, but our originality lies precisely in finding our own way to communicate with the world.

Gabriella knows this well, and she has always approached life with a lot of drive and an incredible hunger to learn, to study, to observe. To improve.

Indeed, it is not everyone who can write, can paint, can sing, or can cook, but perhaps "knowing how to do" is not what really matters when we see it as an end point.

Vincent Van Gogh said, "I always do what I don't know how to do in order to learn how it should be done", and this is where Gabriella, who has been studying painting in the studio for more than a decade now, sees herself.

textural "Barche" ["Boats"]

Once a week she goes to the workshop of her art master who teaches her the theory and technique of painting, how to channel her creative flair so that it takes shape through strokes and colors.

While immersing herself in a world without space or time, she imprints on the canvas the signs of her study: the structure of the figure, three-dimensionality, perspective, movement. She often starts with a charcoal drawing that she then destroys with oil color to study its different effects.

Are you familiar with the grisaille technique?

This is a technique that allows you to create volume using only two colors: white and black (but not black in the strict sense, because it is created by proportionally mixing dark ultramarine blue and burnt earth shadow, which result in different shades of gray). Start with the dark, which should remain in the lower part of the area to be volumized, and go over it several times with the white to blend it out. After about ten or twelve coats you move on to the glazing colors, such as cyan very diluted in oil in the case of the painting below to create the veil of the Madonnina

"La Madonna del dito"

Creative flair, however, manifests itself at different times and in different ways, because life itself touches us in different ways, like when you open the window in the morning and suddenly a thought arises in your mind, a fleeting moment that you need to immortalize because of the emotions it has conveyed.

Gabriella uses these thoughts, like her paintings, to express herself and communicate with the world, even when the world could not understand who she was.

Thoughts written on the spur of the moment, as delicate and simple as the wings of a butterfly that rests on the reader's shoulder and carries away its heaviness by hovering again.

"Certezze" ["Certainties"] - "Poesia" Award Centro d'arte G.B. Tiepolo, Udine 02/2011

Gabriella's essence is art, it is a desire to learn, to leave something of herself, a sign of her emotions.

" I am in search of some thing that will come through study, experimentation and the passion of writing and drawing, because our ideas eventually translate into signs. Our ideas become signs. The signs remain and are visible to anyone. "

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Instagram: @gabriellabassovalent