Ornella Ricca the Art of painting

Ornella Ricca was born in 1962 in Naples, Italy.
She started painting when she was 17 years old, after high school.
From the beginning she lived her art as a continuous search of intuitions ,experiments of techniques and materials to print on them the images of her memories.
In 1980 she was in USA. She came in contact with Chicago and New York artistic movement.
The frequents travels will be one constant in her artistic evolution, source of new inspirations ,fundamental stages in her process of maturation and increase. She's a careful observer and, she always shows a great desire to know the surrounding reality , the past and the memory …
After a short pause, in 1982 , she was inspired to travel again ( Paris, Barcelona, New York ,Boston ,Mexico City ,Cairo ,Bali ). she always came back home to fix on paintings and wood her ideas .
In 1985 she started to experiment new three-dimensional geometrical shape deriving from computer language .In 1994 she leaved the optical illusions to start a new
pictorial period dedicated to the memory and its places. The memory and the silence are the essential elements of Ornella Ricca's art.
In 1996 she realized pictures for a book about Vesuvius,
“L’ultimo Re “,published by Cuen and written by the poet Carlo Procope.
In 1997 she realized book-cover and inside pictures for the book “Napoli ad occhio nudo “ published by Cuen and written by Antonio Noto.
In1999 Ornella Ricca was inserted in the book “Arte Contemporanea “ by De Agostini.
Ornella Ricca's art is a continuous research of “The Time of Being “ that escapes from frantic rhythms ,refuses special effects ,denies the myths created and destroyed in a single day , but identifies itself with the silence, and the memory 's frame.

works
Ornella Ricca's
oil paintings
describes the
landscapes of the
soul...