The birth of a painting is a journey through a foreign land that nourishes itself with ideas, light, colours and raw materials: the artist is the catalyst of a connection between the imagination and the reality. It’s a path of moulding of light and pigments through the painter’s hands and brushes. The work of art germinates as a son of the artist, as a new living being: its coming into the world is like the blossoming of a flower during a spring’s warm afternoon