I started to like art when I was very young, drawing every were, with little worries from my mom..
So, with the blessing of my family, I start to study Art in my hometown, Torino, Italy and I was graduated from the Academy. After that, one very important Art Gallery offered me a contract with his Gallery and I started to paint professionally. I always loved Photography too and I decided to put together both my skills, creating painting including photographs in some of my artworks. As a professional photographer I worked for more than 20 years for magazines and advertising and during these years I did a lot of Photo Exhibitions and won several International Photo Awards. In 1993 I moved to Tonga together with my family, my personal life was not so busy as in Italy and I started to paint again, particularly inspired by the amazing colors surrounding and beauty of the people and landscape. In my works I try to represent the intrigue of the South Pacific, where everything is not what it seems and the contrast we should feel daily between the elegant past and the fast future. From 1993 GP live and work in Tonga. |