Lucia Gonnella was born in Bari, Italy where before long she showed this passion for painting and drawing but she had, at the same time, a different career as French and Italian teacher. She studied design, composition and life drawings at the Academy of Brera in Milano. She found in North Beach an artist community who helped to develop and support her artist consciousness and work. She is done many solo and group Shows. She was a member of San Francisco Women Artists and currently a member of City Art Gallery.
Statement
I was born to create. I have to paint every day in order to be happy.
I am a Plein Air painter. I consider myself a tool. The paintings are already there. During my walks it looks to me they are calling me and my mission is just to put them on a canvas.
Creating is most of all a spiritual experience which helps me to discover every day more of myself and to see things most of the time we cannot see because we are taken by our everyday worries and thoughts. Buildings, architecture especially of cities like San Francisco, old Italian towns, or tropical houses in Hawaii attract me. Like the Impressionists I paint on location to fully capture the moment and the sensations related to the place. I consider myself a traveler making a diary through sketches.
@2022
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