Lucia Gonnella is a plein air painter who paints in the streets of San Francisco.She tries to seize the moment using acrylics, watercolors, and oils.
She was born in Bari, Italy where before long she showed an early passion for painting and drawing which continued during her career as a French and Italian teacher and continues even today. SheI studied design, composition, and life drawing at the Academy of Brera in Milano.
Teaching French and Italian in middle Schools was not a happy experience for her until in 2006 when she met Martha Zlatar an art coach who finally helped her accept that she was an artist and she started to paint everyday outdoor for the first time in her life.
In 2011 she found an artist community in North Beach that supported her and helped her to develop her artist expression . She do solo and group shows in the Bay Area in places like Live Worms Gallery and City Art Gallery. IShe also participated in the Open Studios with ArtSpan and Art Explosion and exhibited in Italy and Hawaii. She teaches online and in-person watercolor workshops for Next Village and Hayes Valley Art Works
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Da San Francisco a Bari per dipingere palazzi: chi è Lucia, l'artista sui marciapiedi
In questi giorni i tanti nel rione Libertà di Bari l'hanno vista aggirarsi tra i marciapiedi di via Nicolai con cavalletto, tela e pennelli. Alcuni le hanno domandato, incuriositi, cosa dipingesse, altri l'hanno addirittura fotografata.
di Gino Martina
- Clicca per saperne di più da Repubblica it del 1/2019 by Gino Martina
Video by Diane Harrigan
"Italian born Lucia Gonnella is an amazing San Francisco artist who adores North Beach. Her brilliant paintings make you want to spend endless hours at an outdoor cafe savoring the sights of this historic neighborhood. I met her on San Francisco’s oldest block – Grant Street – where she was painting the outside of a French-Italian bakery. She called it her ‘mysterious corner’ and spent a month returning to embrace the late afternoon sun just as it cast the perfect light. She says she met so many people during that time, that part of the reason she stretched out her project was to converse with the locals.
As she is quoted as saying, 'Art is life. Art is movement, Art is a diary of life. Only through art I feel deep delicate sensations'.
Lucia looks for spots that have the perfect combination of form and color. I caught up with her at Open Studios in April where she discussed her passion for her work". - Diane Harrigan
Not only painter,but also poet "Sorge l‘immoto sole"
By Lucia Gonnella
Read by Lucia Diomede at the La Notte Bianca della Poesia in Giovinazzo Bari, Italy on September 4, 2020
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