Romanengo Laura

“The reasons of his journey aren’t other, but the ones of the pleasure of painting, to really paint.” M. Franzone

She lives and works in Genoa, where she was born in 1970. She studied restoration of paintings on canvas and panel in Florence. “My thirty years of activity in restoring ancient, modern and contemporary paintings allowed me to build an in-depth knowledge of the painting with respect to his material, stylistic and technical composition.

I start with the past of painting and then translate it into informal contemporary. The creation of my painting begins from the frame assembly and the canvas tensioning, and it goes ahead with the handmade mixing of colours composed of milled natural pigments and oil (in the ancient way) with variable dilutions and an almost infinite assortment of colours to be composed.

This allows me both to play with transparencies, by using finely milled pigments of vegetal origin, and to create thicknesses, by using coarser pigments of mineral origin with a larger diameter instead. I need all these material variations to give depth and softness to my painting without renouncing to the gestural and random component which autonomously takes part with the others.”