Melissa Candido

I'm a self-taught pencil artist born in Messina in 1992 and “Drawing is not what I do but what I am”.

I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember.

Maybe I started out of necessity: I wanted what I was drawing to be as real as possible. More and more real, because the subjects I chose from time to time were always linked in some way to something that I needed to feel mine at a more intimate level.

Hyperrealism, according to some, is definitely not a style to choose when it comes to feelings and emotions. They say it’s just cold technique.

But I firmly disagree.

Well, my works talk about this.