Inside gold

Inside goldDetails About Mixed media on paper Graphite, colored pencil, and watercolor on Arches paper 30 x 40 cm 12 x 16 in. 2020 Erica Calardo (Genoa, 1980) is a figurative painter living and working in Bologna, Italy. Erica works in oils, watercolors, and pencils and her haunting portraits are windows on the solitude of lost souls. She explores the realm of Beauty, Grotesque, Magic, by creating eery oneiric feminine figures who tell tales of long forgotten

which she herself has struggled with with since adolescence

Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as New Mighty Atom

My piece fully embraces an icy glare

approaching such subjects as the unreachability of the American dream

Acrylic and Oil on 600 gsm Pressed Paper Postcard

Into the Wild

The goal in allowing this space for interpretation is to promote the use of and patience for one’s personal sense of wonder in a world where information is immediately accessible - unlike the artist's childhood where people were often left to imagine the possibilities of their curiosities long before their questions might be answered

and a sensitivity for the balance our eyes naturally seek

Her debut verse collection Word Cave was published by Risk Press in January

I am a self employed artist based in Newcastle

consumed by buildings

She is a balance of the nurturing feminine and the seductive femme fatale