I first met the magic of rock painting in 1996. I was working as illustrator for various publishing houses, and I painted mainly in watercolours. Rock painting art made me discover and explore acrylic’s potential. Currently it’s my favourite technique even when painting on canvas. I love rock painting for its ability to mix the old and the new (it’s no accident that this fascinating technique was born in very ancient times!). Nowadays you can dress stones with very versatile new paints, which guarantee good resistance in time. In the past few years I created thousands of creatures all shapes and sizes. I don’t paint only animals, but they are by far my favourite subjects, because painting them literally helps me bring inanimate mineral matter to life. All my artworks are unique, and the rocks I use are not processed at all. I always honour every hole or imperfection Nature has carried out in decades; moreover, I try to exploit it through drawing with nuances and light and shade effects
