Ulrike
Belloni

Since I was a little girl I knew I was going to be a painter. 

When in my early twenties I traveled for long periods in Asia and South America, studying history, politics and anthropologie at university. I was painting everyday on my diaries and sketch books with watercolour and grafite, always focusing on people. 

Back in Italy, I started an intense atelier painting traning in Florence, at Charles H. Cecil studios. For years I dedicated and still dedicate myself to paint portrait of people I meet in the streets or people I know. I paint from life, practicing the sight size method, using oil paint and always trying to realize my portrait at natural size, always thinking about and deeply admiring Titian, who was the first to paint from life to the scale of life, and all the great masters after him who I look up the most, Velasquez, Rubens and Van Dyck.