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Soraya Silvestri

Soraya Silvestri

‘Zizi’

Born: Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Education: Self taught

Lives in: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Biography

I was born in Brazil, and have lived in many countries, each place adding a unique memory and feeling to my imagination.

I have always had a passion for art and am immediately drawn to any painting in any room I’ve been in. I’ve studied the play of light and dark conceived by the artists imagination using humble pigments brought together by the stroke of a brush. It is still amazing to me the feeling a painting can convey with a simple brush full of paint.

Today, I strive to achieve to translate my personal experiences, what I’ve seen, what I love, and how I feel for something to my paintings.

Artist Statement

With a love for colour and nature, I immerse myself in my paintings with passion. I love to play with colour, and am always amazed at it's many beautiful surprises. More abstract than real, the paintings say 'here, look at me!'. They evoke within me a response and an immediate connection, that make me feel happy and alive.

They are truly a celebration, filled with fun and fantasy and a colourful spontaneity that reveal the whimsical side of my personal ‘secret garden’.

Other works, delve into the abstract world of expression by colour and not form, while still others reveal a world closer to reality hidden within my own imagination.

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