Arte in Europa - Artist Profile

Giuseppe D'elia

Giuseppe is a landscape artist who captures the beautiful land and seascapes of southern Italy and the Adriatic coastline with an imaginative mind and vibrant palette.

His use of colour and the manner in which he applies in careful brush strokes or free flowing palette knife captures the idyllic rural setting of the fields, orchards, coastline and waterways of this tranquil part of Italy.

Golden yellows, rust reds and burnt orange are mixed and applied to his canvases in such a way that they exude a warmth with which you can imagine you would feel should you be standing there, and his light use of colour for the sky and the sea creates a hazy, subdued atmospheric feeling which is entirely appropriate for a calm sea on a warm day.

Like a lot of artists, Giuseppe studied at various art schools and colleges in Italy, but he became disenchanted with the way his tutors tried to streamline his approach and point him in directions that were alien to him and his free flowing style.

He decided the only way to be free to paint what felt natural was by self teaching and he immersed himself in painting full time.

He soon began to draw plaudits from galleries and critics after a number of small self financed exhibitions and in 1974 he was offered his first solo show in a gallery in Brindisi. Since then Giuseppe has not looked back and he exhibits regularly in galleries in the fashionable cities of Rome and Milan as well as keeping to his rural roots and showing in small resort towns around the country.

Giuseppe has had his work shown at all the major art fairs in Italy as well as fairs in Frankfurt, Cannes, Dublin and Edinburgh.

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