Artist Melissa Fiorentino

I am Melissa Fiorentino a 23 year old acrylic painter and pencil artist. I was born in upstate New York and came to Ocala, Florida in 1990. I have been a pencil artist for over 8 years and began professionally drawing about 6 years ago. Painting came later, I have been painting for 5 years and professionally painting for 4 years. I studied at Central Florida Community College,. where I was taught how to use my drawing skills and imply them into my painting. Subject matter is vital to me. I love to incorporate many different ideas using figures, lines, an array of color and images that reflect life in it's personal subjective state. I paint a representational, abstract and a portrait all into one. It is a way to allow a way for there to be a reality and dream or nightmare enclosed onto one image. There is also a truth inside what we deem as unreal, a truth that can make us happy, focused or simply an escape…that is what I want to bring to the surface. If I can get away with creating a creation that allows me to apply mixed media, a figure or an interesting focal point, use a variety of colors and my lines than I feel I have totally succeeded with a painting. I always feel the need to challenge myself with every piece of artwork I do. It is a way for me to track my growth as an artist and as a person. Art is the escape from the reality of everyday life, a chance to leave this chaotic world for a while to a peaceful place and then come back. I know that is what I feel when I see a painting or anything that moves me. I just hope to find that people can see something in my art that moves them, that makes them get goosebumps or makes them feel the need to stop every time they walk by……..

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