Women
Every artist, in addition to possessing a unique style, also has their own preferred themes and subjects that constitute the main source of their inspiration, making their works immediately recognizable.
In my paintings and illustrations, the female figure plays a predominant role, both in its distinctive physical and spiritual traits: soft, curvaceous, sensual, sweet, mysterious, melancholic, curious...
Is there something of Silvia in the women I paint? Certainly! However, it is an instinctive process, not the result of a conscious choice. I don't intend to portray my physical appearance in them, but through their faces, I relive emotions, moods, and ways of being that deeply belong to me. When I manage to objectify them on the canvas, I feel serene, free, reassured, and appeased.
Perhaps these creatures, sometimes enigmatic, represent the ideal that I would have liked to achieve; perhaps they emerge from the depths of my unconscious to give shape to my aspirations, desires, and fears. I cannot precisely tell those who insistently ask me (sometimes annoyingly) for the "meaning" of my works, except to invite them to "feel" what they communicate rather than "interpret" or "explain" their essence.
I am not seeking Botticelli's idealized beauty; I am rather seeking the intensity and uniqueness of expression, which sometimes also reveal themselves through "flaws" and disproportions. Therefore, the hands of my women are very large, capable of both welcoming and protecting, as well as rejecting and defending, of shutting out. Their eyes are also very large, wide-open and perplexed, with a gaze that is not perfectly aligned, restless, mobile, inquisitive; or they are half-closed in the muffled atmosphere of a dream.
The elongated necks are clearly inspired by Modigliani, an artist whom I greatly admire.
The bodies are soft, with heavy and maternal breasts. However, the most distinctive and characterizing element is the hair; long and thick, rendered through compact tonal areas. These sinuous and enveloping hair, adhering to and caressing the soft shapes of the bodies, like a magical and "primordial" garment, confer dynamism and intensity to the painting.
