Rosanna Gaddoni
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BoldBrush Recommends: Rosanna Gaddoni
Biography
Rosanna Gaddoni (b. 1972) is an Italian artist, currently based in the Netherlands.
After a corporate career, she started a series of art courses, first at the Tekenschool of Rijksmuseum and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, then in private ateliers. She followed the two-year course in Leiden, for Sumi-e instructor (Japanese ink brush technique).
Gaddoni's art has been internationally exhibited and awarded. In the PleinAir Salon International Art Competition, she collected: one 3rd place overall, two times 'Best Drawing', 'Best Animal and Birds', and 6 Honorable Mention awards. In December 2023 The Portrait Society of America awarded her a 6th placement and a finalist award in two categories in the Members Only Competition, in 2022 a 7th placement and two finalist awards, and in 2021 a 2nd placement. She exhibited in London at the Summer Exhibition 2022 at the Royal Academy of Arts and as a Finalist of the Wildlife Artist of the Year in September 2023. She won an Honourable Mention in the Almenara Art Prize in Cordoba (Spain), where she exhibited in October 2023. She won two Finalist awards in the Boldbrush International painting contest and in 'Stroke of Genius' 15 drawing competition. She is a Finalist with two artworks in the Drawing and Animals categories in the 16th Art Renewal Center Salon.
Gaddoni's work is part of private collections worldwide. In 2021 and 2022 she was invited by Copelouzos Family to be part of the permanent collection of the CFA Museum in Greece.
ART STATEMENT
I grew up on a small farm in the north of Italy: my house was in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by fields and I can remember them changing colors with the natural cycle of the seasons. In that small corner of Earth, there was nothing, and yet I had everything I needed to feel blissful, I was surrounded by Life in every form.
In my work, I still seek that Life presence in the dance of lights and shadows, and the sacredness of that perception never ceases to amaze me: I want to represent Life in what I call poetic realism, trying to capture with honesty the world and the human figure, combining the emphasis on drawing and values with my emotional involvement. I work mostly with charcoal and graphite on paper and oil on canvas or panels, these mediums help me to create works where the representational style also conveys the vibration and the movement of Life.
There is a subtle line connecting all my artworks: they are dots connecting the bigger picture of my devotion and respect for every form of Life and for the immense privilege of perceiving the human living experience, in this remote corner of the universe that we share.
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Really lovely work. I love how the figures, both animal and human fade into the black.