Carina Francioso is an internationally recognized, award winning Canadian Italian fine artist with works held in private and corporate collections around the globe. Her meticulous attention to detail is clearly demonstrated through her contemporary realist oil paintings. She has always...
Read MoreCarina Francioso is an internationally recognized, award winning Canadian Italian fine artist with works held in private and corporate collections around the globe. Her meticulous attention to detail is clearly demonstrated through her contemporary realist oil paintings. She has always had a deep appreciation for the old masters and realism renaissance painting, hence the realistic execution of her work.
Francioso’s paintings draw inspiration from the calm or tumultuous, incessantly changing waters of the world. Her paintings express the beauty, power and fragility of our precious world waters. Francioso’s adolescent years were spent boating with family on Georgian Bay in Canada, and since the age of 16 she has enjoyed spending her summers living seaside in her family home in Salento, Italy. These experiences provide powerful inspiration for her work. Her connection to water and her own femininity provoked the introduction of the female nude in water (self portraits). These paintings express the link between water and woman: the strength, fragility, power, healing, and life-giving qualities that both woman and water possess.
Francioso has a deep fascination with beauty and its embodiment through many different art forms. She also has a professional modelling career which exposes her to a different kind of beauty. She believes that beauty is not necessarily a luxury, but that it is something our souls need. She says that “beauty is a vessel that can be filled with substance and vision, housing an intention that can transform and heal… beauty is a way of bringing light and possibility to every moment.” She immortalizes her paintings with deep grace and delicacy, reflecting her passion for life and her constant inquiry into natural, physical, and spiritual beauty.
Francioso has participated several times as a Juror on the Boynes Emerging Artist Award panel. She is the recipient of the 2019 Arcadia Contemporary Gallery Award, the Bernice Adams Memorial Visual Arts Award and Bursary, among several others. Her work was internationally broadcast on RAI Television and has been featured in various magazines such as American Art Collector, Art Renewal Center’s International Realism Salon Catalog, Hyperrealism Magazine and Panoram Italia. Some of Francioso’s celebrity collectors include the Princess of Dubai, John Legend, Tony Robbins, Wim Hof and Jim Kwik. As well, several paintings reside in homes designed by celebrity interior designer Barclay Butera.
