Nadia Ferrante

Nadia Ferrante is an Italian artist who has a strong sense of beauty and has been drawing and painting since childhood. She is passionate about art and is inspired by great Italian masters such as Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Raphael as well as Klimt, Degas and the Pre-Raphaelites. She took a drawing and painting course during her adolescence but her studies were more traditional and distant from art. She had to put her passion aside for a while due to family matters and a serious bereavement, but her passion for art reignited and became a necessity for her. She self-taught herself the techniques of soft pastels, oil colors, and graphite and primarily works on portraiture and figurative representation. She expresses herself mainly with dry pastels, pastel pencils, and the three-color technique as she feels it better matches her intentions with the finished work. Her style is described as imaginative realism, and her characters are dramatic, immersed in an enigmatic and intellectually rich context of philosophical contents that stimulate the most curious minds. She deals with issues related to the present and society's contradictions, but also loves classical themes and those linked to the tradition of Italian art. Throughout her work, she conveys her idea of beauty, emotionality, and sensuality.