Rossella Paolini, Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory member provides some fascinating insights into her practice and experience as a pop surrealist painter, as she responds to the questions below:
- Art is a visual language, what are you hoping to communicate to the viewer through your work?
- You have a very distinctive style, what drew you to working with this medium?
- Did you do any formal study in the arts? Did you find it helpful or a hindrance?
- Who is your biggest art throb and why?
Art is a visual language, what are you hoping to communicate to the viewer through your work?
What I want to communicate to the viewer is amazement! The same as when you were a child for the illustrations of fairy tales or for an animated or science fiction film! A journey into a fantastic world where you would like to get lost and leave behind the burdensome things of life!
You have a very distinctive style, what drew you to working with this medium?
Your own style is acquired over time! As a girl I learned the oil technique but very soon I switched to acrylic, which I still use today! I love painting on canvas and paper, and sometimes on wood. Sometimes I use acrylic together with gouache, colored pencils, gold leaf, collage and I often apply glitter and synthetic crystals! Acrylic colors are impactful, I love bright and fluorescent colors, and lately I also dedicate myself to monochrome.
Did you do any formal study in the arts? Did you find it helpful or a hindrance?
I started art school in my city, I was going to become an art teacher in three years and I wasn’t interested, then I would have had to specialize in some art academy in another city! I didn’t even finish the first year and I never regretted it, the only drawing was geometric or still life, for me who always loved fantasy it wasn’t stimulating at all! Then I took a course in a professional school for fashion designer, but I dropped that too because I would have had to be a seamstress too, and I just wanted to create and draw!
Who is your biggest art throb and why?
My artistic passions are more than one, indeed many! I love all my pop surrealist colleagues; they delight and inspire me every day with their works!!!. I particularly love two talented illustrators Benjamin Lacombe and Nicoletta Ceccoli and the king of pop surrealism Mark Ryden
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