Nadia

 When I look at a blank canvas, images slowly start to appear. With a stroke of my brush, my vision is transpired into the canvas as I paint. Silk painting was the next step for me since I had studied and worked with Japanese artists for over 34 years. I’ve always had a passion for art and creating my own designs.

With a diverse background of artistic experience, my objective in silk painting is to branch the two worlds of Italian Renaissance and the beautiful colors and lines found in Japanese kimonos. These two cultures have helped influence my life.

As you will see in my paintings, I use a number of techniques and colors to create a variety of silk paintings. The Italian Renaissance is very apparent in painting number NAzumi003 (also known as “Carnivale di Venezia”). With rich colors which were inspired by the frescos in Pompeii and the Renaissance painters of Florence and Venice, this is my version of an Italian mask.

In other paintings. I use vibrant colors to depict floral arrangements I have created in the past with Japanese Ikebana. Different chemicals, acrylics and techniques are what help create different types of textures and lines.

I look at colors and nature’s beauty and everything inspires me to paint. When I see something that I like, be it in colors or nature, I try to transfer this onto silk painting. “Think outside the box; create. See the beauty around you and through your heart and soul. Vision what you want to do.” This is what my professor in San Francisco at Fashion University had told me. I enjoy painting with brushes, seeing what the dyes do on plain white silk.

Animals and landscapes are another inspiration I use for my artwork. Colorful birds or animals with detailed patterns just like in artwork “Siberian Tiger.”

I know that I have unlimited techniques to learn and master, and I also know that everything is possible with practice and having a dream. I hope this provides you with a little bit of information on why silk painting is such a passion in my life. As I have enjoyed and loved painting, I am hoping that people will enjoy them as we 

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Nadia is an Italian born married to a Japanese and worked for UNESCO. After retiring from the UN she decided to go into art. She was influenced by her mother’s artistic talents that she acquired in Tuscany when she was young. Nadia worked and studied with Japanese artist for over 30 years. You can see her alter ego at www.absolutejapan.com.

Nadia has somehow retired from just Japanese arts and has started painting on silk only a year ago from 8 10  hours a day. She is trying to combine her Italian background with the Japanese art that she has mastered through the years.

She has had 2 exhibits in 2009.One at the Greenbelt Courthouse, where together with 40 other silk painters put up a SPIN show of which she is the chapter President for Maryland, Virginia and D.C. Nadia was elected last year as chapter President by the members.

SPIN stands for Silk Painting International.

Her second exhibit is at the Plum Center in Virginia where she is exhibiting 4 of her pieces together with other instructors of different media.

Nadia teaches silk painting at her studio in Rockville as well as through the Adult Education and ACE.

She is planning to have more exhibits.She has sold several of her pieces, and is working hard in mastering new techniques that are only acquired with so many hours of practice.

She plans to include her artwork with fashion where she studied at the San Francisco Art University.

You can contact Nadia for upcoming 1-2 days workshops or on going classes.

She also teaches painting on Indian Saris as well as how to use silk painting in fashion runway collections.