Giuliana Lazzerini

"Altissimo" by Giuliana Lazzerini

Giuliana was born in Seravezza near Pietrasanta in Tuscany. Between 1962 and 1968 she was a student at the Instituto d'Arte Satgi in Pietrasanta, gaining a Master of Arts Diploma. This was followed by a further four years studying painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara.

The Tuscan landscape and childhood memories still bear a strong influence upon the artist's current work. In an earlier statement she describes her first encounters with art in Italy as a child in her father's Mosaic Studio. She refers to the "translucency of the mosaic fragment" and her "fascination with the juxtapositioning of pieces". These early perceptions, several years on, provide a language and vocabulary for her pictures in terms of colour, surface and scale of mark which she uses in the construction of her tapestry-like, interlocking angular-surfaced village landscapes.

Giuliana Lazzerini, Blue Walls
"Blue Walls" by Giuliana Lazzerini

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

"Colour is very important to me, it helps me to convey emotion in all my subjects. My landscapes and buildings are evocative of Tuscany, the land where I grew up. My figurative work is a symbol of human condition and self introspection. With the use of "Props", objects, clues, relating to the figure, I hope to engage the viewer in communication". "My first contact with Art was in Italy as a child in my father's mosaic studio. The translucency of mosaic fragments and the way colours can vibrate against each other always fascinate me. These were mainly reproductions of early religious images where the use of symbolic figures made me realise that an Art image has its own reality. This and the spectrum of European Art is in my attempt to create new expressive images."

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

1991-1998 - Royal Institute of Oil Painters, London.
1993-1996 -Singer & Friedlander /Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, U.K Tour.
1992-1993 - Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London.
1998 - The Art Supermarket, U.K Stores and Munich, Germany.
2000/2002 - C.C.A.Galleries, London, New landscape Exhibition, two artist exhibition.
2002 - Singer and Friedlander/ Sunday Times Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2002 -City Art Gallery, Leeds.
2002 -The Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

1978 - J.D.Kelly Gallery, Glasgow.
1993 - Fairbairn House, University of Leeds.
1995 - South Yorkshire Art Gallery, Doncaster.
1997 - South Square Art Gallery, Bradford.
2000 - Bottle Kiln Gallery,West Hallam, Derbyshire.
2001 - C.C.A.Galleries, London, solo show, Farnham.
2002 - Bottle Kiln Gallery, Derbyshire.
2002 - Juno Desigh Gallery, Argyll, Scotland.