Biography

Paola Colleoni, born in Argentina in 1953, lives and works in Bergamo (Italy).

Since the childhood she was trained in different forms of art: first teacher was her beloved grandmother, 'nonna Teresa'; then she had good teachers at school and, when she was 11, she started with a training 'a bottega' in the porcelain-decoration studio of a great artist, Mrs. Leoni. After the studies on classical literature  the Paola Colleoni has followed courses on drafting and painting at the “Carrara Academy of Fine Arts” in Bergamo, under the direction of Maestro Luigi Arzuffi.

She has continuously learned and taken inspiration from the artistic masterpieces of all ages, which she had the opportunity to admire during the extensive travelling through Italy and abroad.

In parallel to the painting activity, started in the early seventies, the artist has worked, also, in the field of business administration, as accountant and IT administrator.

From 1998 she intensified her art work (oil on canvas, panels, porcelain and wood decorations) and had exhibitions around Italy.

Painting technique and themes

The artist found painting her optimal way to communicate and research the charming world of life, spirit, emotions.

A life-long technical and meanings evolution brought out her personal style. As final tangible result of the interior work, paintings go beyond the individual dimension, opening themselves to communication and value for their existence.

In these paintings, nature is the place where we all live and where we find significance. The challenge is painting the space existing between the things: a mysterious space opened by an always renewed amazement.

The inspiration comes from real experiences or from dreams . We are part of realty and our dreams, as they are part of everyone of us, are real: the dream is the realm of spontaneous symbols, the place where we are free to express ourselves . So, even if apparently absent, the subject of the paintings is always the man, because the landscapes are a transposition of emotions, memories and thoughts.

Every canvas is like a window opened to a world where everything is symbolic , a reality anyway full of significance and hope.
Ingenuity, astonishment and enthusiasm come out from the childhood and become method of existing: an always lucid and conscious method, where the joy is possible.

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