DENISE DEL GIUDICE
An award-winning painter
Denise lives a short walk away from Ponte Milvio in Rome. She is back after travelling the world to study Fine Art in the USA, UK, and Germany. She has dedicated years to developing her poetic style. Denise is British-Italian, an artist on the rise who has preferred to mature in order to reach proficiency in her artistic expression. She paints in oils, a medium she finds congenial to portraying matter in consecutive layers at her easel.
This artist approaches her subject from different focal points and perspectives while maintaining a visual and conceptual harmony. Indeed, this approach characterises her work. Her dynamic paintings invite the viewer to step right inside them; bushes, brambles, rocks, woodland, and roots take centre stage. Denise creates a deeply felt, evocative atmosphere through which nature can be experienced inwardly and harmoniously. It is no wonder that Denise has just been awarded the prestigious Monte Mario Prize. Her sensitive brushstrokes and compositions did not go unnoticed by the Jury, nor did her deeply felt and psychological interpretation of nature. "We were struck by how Denise Del Giudice divides an image into multiple staggered sequences thus conferring a dynamism to the subject with skilful brush strokes saturated with matter". Herein lies the motivation of the Jury. Denise is not distracted by a frenzied pursuit of success. However she is widely recognised. Indeed, in addition to having won this painting Competition organised by the Amici di Monte Mario Association, she received a Special Mention by the Jury at the Torretta di Ponte Milvio
Prize in 2005, organised by Loredana Ciocca, Head of Culture of the Rome 20th City Municipality. Denise is inwardly rich also thanks to her travels. Her painting is understandable to people of all cultures. She received much recognition from the public at her recent solo show at the Torretta di Ponte Milvio. She deserves international recognition.
Denise Del Giudice's paintings speak the international language of beauty which can be understood by all.
Alessio Pinelli.
Magazine - La Voce del Villaggio n. 9, October 2006.
Now Journalist at the Press Office, Roman Senate.
TORRETTA VALADIER AT PONTE MILVIO
Denise Del Giudice’s paintings
Woods, where vegetation is dense and wild. Brambles, bushes, rough terrain, it is in these places that Denise Del Giudice seeks inspiration for her paintings. She does not need large spaces. The smaller ones are where she finds what she needs. A tangle of branches or leaves suddenly catches her eye, lit up in an unusual way; just what she was looking for. In excitement she takes a photo. This is only the first step in the process which will lead to a finished painting. Through a criterion dictated by her imagination alone, the artist creates a collage from this photo. Turning to her canvas, she applies vibrant colours, light and shade, and new identities come forth with tiny brush strokes. Barely perceptible lines divide up the canvas. Different areas on the canvas mysteriously converge, overcoming duality (light-shadow, light-dark, large-small). A symbiosis is achieved.
Indeed, what this young and sensitive artist wants to achieve through painting is harmony, capable of uniting - as she herself writes "different parts of an organic system". Therefore, unity as opposed to duality. A serene relationship in nature and between nature and Man.
Denise's paintings are always full of images and detail which she herself seems to discover as she paints with excitement. That same enthusiasm leads her to look deeply into dense, seemingly impenetrable vegetation, to search for a ditch, a tangle of roots, or a glow that unexpectedly lights up a dark cavity: a sort of existential landscape, mirror of the mysterious darkness of the Soul.
These paintings are about transformation; a simple shrub or a plant clinging to a trunk can become an image full of joyful vitality.
Denise Del Giudice is British-Italian. She was born in Rome, where she currently resides. Her art studies have taken her to the USA, the UK, Germany and Rome. For some years she has been participating in painting exhibitions in and around Rome. In April 2006 she participated in the Competition organised by the Amici di Monte Mario Association, winning the First Prize ex aequo for painting.
The exhibition, promoted by the Rome City Council, took place in the prestigious Torretta Valadier at Ponte Milvio, from the 23rd to 27th last September.
Annamaria Marchesi
Magazine - Monte Mario n. 241 October 2006