In the works of the series Flora, Anita Bortolotti evokes her childhood lived in the countryside, a connection with nature and the land which deeply... Read more

nourished her imagination. But this is not, in anyway, a mere reproduction of reality: these illustrations tend to abstract and extract: an abstraction of shapes and colours from which the regenerative power of nature itself is distilled. Her works are characterized by the soft strokes which give rise to naïf art, in the noblest sense of this term. In their aesthetic purity, some illustrations of the series Flora emanate a sense of peace, whilst others a sense of energy and vitality, in a crescendo starting from the most tenuous to the most saturated nuance. Close