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This comment came recently from Silvia Bellia, an Italian author who just recently published her first novel and for whom I was fortunate to provide the bookcover art for (below), she writes :

“I congratulate you on your new paintings and on your exhibition.
I saw your paintings on the internet and I noticed a different style, it reminds me of the cubist movement. In fact, you drew Pablo’s cat (Its Picasso’s, isn’t it?). Do you call your art cubism?
Your figures have a lightness, they make a whole: a narrative scene.
They don’t subdivide the image, but create unity of place.
Even in “Absinthe” I don’t feel the difficulty of recollecting pieces, but the images make me think that there is an inner meaning somewhere in mind, an equilibrium that I don’t know yet, but that I could know.
I like the way you recompose the same objects in other paintings, like the famous paperboat. People can recognize these objects and suppose every painting is an “interior fragment” of your artistic world. Balzac did this too. His characters reappeared many times from novel to novel. So every book was a little fragment of his whole human comedy.
I hope to be inspired from this and write a new story!”

Silvia Bellia

"Sao Paolo" 26"x 26" oil on wood 2010

I have given this painting the title “Sao Paolo” because to me the composition has the happy and rythmic feel of a Brazilian Samba. I also think of vinyl record jacket design for some kind of fictitious 60′s jazz ensemble.