This week’s featured Designer Desire artist hails from Down Under. Marina Strocchi (b. 1961) is a fine artist and printmaker working primarily with acrylic on linen.
Born in Melbourne to an Australian mother and Italian father, she has lived in Central Australia for many years – an environment that heavily informs her artistic practice.
She has exhibited internationally and her work is included in the collections of Art Gallery of Western Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria.
In her artist statement, she explains:
The surface of the painting is my main concern, along with the structure of the drawing. I try to suggest the qualities of nature in my lines and colours. The landscapes of the central and western deserts are currently my primary inspiration. I am also inspired by road trips to places elsewhere. I sometimes take a point of perspective that could be described as a sweeping bird’s eye view. I use the patterns of nature and a desert palette to recreate fragments of memory. I have memories that seem to slowly become part of the present in my work. The openness of nature is what most inspires me.
Her work sometimes comes up for auction and is also available to purchase from Art Images Gallery, Jan Murphy Gallery, Studio 5 and Australian Galleries.
Here’s Strocchi, showing some of her most recent works which were inspired by a 2019 residency she undertook in New York.