Contemporary Abstract Art Painted with Fire
Lucia Pazzi
To paint I use beeswax and Damar resin. And then I use fire, which shuffles the cards.
I don't plan my paintings, I just make them because the technique I have chosen doesn't require me to know where I want to arrive: in a certain sense, we decide the destination together along the way.
I decide that a painting is finished when, quoting a friend, “I don't know what it is, but I like looking at it”.
Painting is freeing yourself from rational thought, it is embarking on a journey without borders, it is letting yourself be guided by the unpredictable.
CV
Do something "nice to look at".
Born in Verona and raised in Rome, Lucia Pazzi moved to Bologna in 1981 where she currently lives and works. Always looking to express "something beautiful to look at", she has professionally carried out various creative activities, from craftsmanship to event scenography, also becoming the author of books and leading courses on the same topics. Free from work commitments, since 2017 she has decided to dedicate herself entirely to painting, choosing the modern encaustic technique. After learning the basic techniques from the US artist Alicia Tormey (which is why her paintings have English titles), she developed her own painting style, predominantly abstract non-representational. After spending a few years experimenting with the multiple potentials of encaustic painting, in 2023 she chose to make her work public for the first time in a personal exhibition, hosted at the Zola Predosa Town Hall.
