Nadia
Ferrante

Nadia Ferrante is an Italian artist, born and raised near Rome, she has developed a strong sense of beauty and has shown her artistic streak since childhood. Passionate about art, her favorite artists are the great Italian masters, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Raphael but over the years she discovers Klimt, Degas, and the Pre-Raphaelites with whom she falls madly in love. During his adolescence he attended a drawing and painting course but his course of studies is rather classic and distant from art. In the following years he had to put this passion aside for a long time, for family matters, and after a bad period, and a serious bereavement a few years ago, she began to think about what was most important in her life, the passion for art has reignited overwhelmingly and creativity has become a necessity. Over time she deepens her knowledge of the main techniques she uses, soft pastels, oil colors and graphite, alone, and she is mainly interested in portraiture and figurative representation. She works a lot on private commissions, but the long period of the lockdown due to the pandemic has given her the impetus to try to prove herself with competitions and exhibitions. She expresses herself mainly with dry pastels, pastel pencils and in the three-color technique, since she feels that with this she is able to better match her intentions with the result of the finished work. In the last year shr has been recognized in local exhibitions but above all she has been included in the special Modportrait 2021 catalog and in the Leonardo 2021 guide. 

In her paintings and drawings, she builds an emotional and psychological dialogue with the viewer, in which she tries to probe the various nuances of the emotions of the human being. The artist creates unfinished stories by immersing herself in her own inner world, involving the spectators by often portraying the characters of her works with a direct gaze to the observer, and thus revealing all the hidden emotions and feelings they evoke in the spectators. Her style can be described as imaginative realism and her characters emerge dramatic and 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, our society and its contradictions, but she also loves classical themes and those linked to the tradition of Italian art. 

She presents the viewer with her own concept of beauty and emotionality, drama and sensuality.