Original paintings from the enchanting landscape of Portofino
Who We Are
Mara Sanguineti's art is created in Portofino, Liguria, located on the Italian Riviera surrounded by the asperity of its mountains and breathtaking sea coasts. She is motivated by the smell of sweet and salty sea which guides her in creating unique canvases. Her natural artisty afforded her to meet significant teachers and painters that further improved her skills and qualities in capturing the essence of this unique environment. In 1979, she opened her first Art Gallery in Camogli a beautiful little village in Liguria, Italy.
Ten years later in 1989, she opened a beautiful Art Gallery in Portofino. The following years have been spent with several exhibitions at Art Galleries in Cote d’Azur (French Rieviera), France and various exhibitions in major cities in Europe. Today, her art exist in private and public collections all over the world. Many newspapers and television networks have taken interest in her paintings and universal approval of her works by public and critics have been obtained in Italy and abroad.
The power and the light of colours in the paintings of Mara Sanguineti, are typical of people who are attentive observers of nature, and are able to be transported by the strength and softness of the landscape while reproducing images true to reality, and like a dream. The strong blue colours, the shaded green ones, the red and yellow colours all seem to take strength from the rays of sunlight. The toning down technique in some shades, contributes a careful and expert technique which adds depth to her paintings by intensifying the perspectives in the foregrounds and giving movement to those reflections on the water so that boats and houses, harmoniously arranged, seem to have caused to make easy a play of colours and innumerable shades.
Her graphic work demonstrates linearity which, takes strength from intense light and shade effects and brings the thought of the observer to a closer connection with reality; here the colours lose their form, the various tonalities of colours project to the observer the landscape in its lively change.
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