As a child I would draw in the sand and paint special stones, transforming them into something they were not. Shortly before coming to Canada as a teenager, I had the good fortune to start painting under the guidance of Otello De Maria, a well known artist from Vicenza, the city where I was born and where I spent my early years.

Now when I paint, I feel in touch with my soul and my creativity.  Painting is my life.  My work is not political, nor has it ever been about making changes for humanity. I paint because it keeps me sane and alive. Creating relationships between spaces, shapes and colors is much like solving a puzzle. It is giving form to the unknown, indeed to the puzzle of life. Color and texture are intrinsic to my work. I observe the world around me and see beauty: in shapes, sounds, tastes and smells.

Even when, in 2002, I opened a catering business:  Pan-O-Pan Fine Foods it became obvious that, together with the concrete practical reasons, there was the same desire to transform matter, flavours, textures into an art form. Cooking is an art form.

My paintings depict dreams, aspirations and life as I see it. I paint as I see, feel, touch and smell. I paint to understand life and give it form.

Vancouver, 2016