Arts have played an important role in Marina's life since her childhood in Italy. Her desire to express herself and to communicate gave rise to her first drawings and paintings and to her first steps in the world of dance (jazz and modern), a discipline that she has continued to practise for many years, both as a a performer and as a a teacher.
During her college years (she graduated from the University of Parma in Foreign Languages and Literatures and in Pedagogy) she focused primarily on dance. Painting remained a formidable passion, despite a lack of opportunities to devote herself to the academic study of paintings techniques as she would have liked.
In 2001 she left Italy and began a journey that would lead her to live in myriad locations across the globe. This broadening of her horizons profoundly affected her as a human being and as an artist and inspired her full time return to painting; she felt the need to fix those emotions and experiences on canvas.
To deepen her knowledge, and while living in Ecuador in 2003, she attended art classes with local painter Sonnia de Marques, rediscovering her passion for portraiture and discovering her fascination with the rythm and movement of the sea.
Based in Singapore since 2005, she has continued to study with artist and lecturer James Holdsworth.
Marina's quest is to go beyond the overt subject matter of her paintings. She draws on the inner life of each subject, be it a feeling, an expression or a gaze; a glimpse of our own soul in the portraits of strangers or the light, movement, colours and overwhelming beauty of nature's vibrant waves. Her work seeks to draw the viewer's gaze into the sublime fragility of the human condition set against the limitless force of nature.
During her college years (she graduated from the University of Parma in Foreign Languages and Literatures and in Pedagogy) she focused primarily on dance. Painting remained a formidable passion, despite a lack of opportunities to devote herself to the academic study of paintings techniques as she would have liked.
In 2001 she left Italy and began a journey that would lead her to live in myriad locations across the globe. This broadening of her horizons profoundly affected her as a human being and as an artist and inspired her full time return to painting; she felt the need to fix those emotions and experiences on canvas.
To deepen her knowledge, and while living in Ecuador in 2003, she attended art classes with local painter Sonnia de Marques, rediscovering her passion for portraiture and discovering her fascination with the rythm and movement of the sea.
Based in Singapore since 2005, she has continued to study with artist and lecturer James Holdsworth.
Marina's quest is to go beyond the overt subject matter of her paintings. She draws on the inner life of each subject, be it a feeling, an expression or a gaze; a glimpse of our own soul in the portraits of strangers or the light, movement, colours and overwhelming beauty of nature's vibrant waves. Her work seeks to draw the viewer's gaze into the sublime fragility of the human condition set against the limitless force of nature.