About

Who am I? I’m Elisa. I have painted since I was a tiny little girl, I don’t use pencil erasers because I never make mistakes. I speak with my plants, put them under the sun un their favorite spot, and I understand the orchids’ jealousy. Flowers are my peaceful, silent and calm oasis, my daily meditation, my research. A simple and rich material, full of hues and shades, that allows me to free my creativity in its pure aesthetic and chromatic sense.

Flowers are a perfect aesthetic expression. They are the colors Nature created to join the light blue of the sky with a bright and starry earth. During the day, they unveil the delicate balance of the universe, bending in the wind and turning their heads towards the Sun and its light.

Their colors and shapes are the essence of my artistic research and path, that stems from the love for ancient Egypt and art.

Flowers and Art

The Ancient Egypt

Ikebana and meditation

In the faraway and mysterious Japan, where art and calligraphy melt into a unique, intense expression, the Ikebana – the art of flower arrangement – is a moment of pure bliss between meditation and the aesthetic sense, diving into the divine elegance conveyed by the perfect flower arrangement.

Flowers have an aesthetic significance, and are chromatic complements of a wider composition.

Thanks to their unmatched beauty, we have associated to species and varieties a precise meaning. The language of flowers taps into the Japanese tradition, the charming and delicate hanakotoba, and reaches the old Europe, hungry for the mysteries and the eternal calmness of the Far East. Giving a flower as a present is summing up our purest emotions in an ancient gesture, giving voice to a splendid ally that supports us when words are not enough.

Botticelli and the Reinassance

In art, all the great painters and sculptors understood the magic and importance of flowers. Botticelli’s Venus, shy and sensual, is about to be covered with a flowery mantle to hide her nude and chaste beauty. In the Spring, the nymph Chloris is wearing a flowery dress and spreading into the world her gifts of the new season, in a chromatic contrast between the darkness of the land and the delicate stars hidden in the meadow.

Monet, Van Gogh and photography

Flying over the different art movements, we land in the 19th century, where we can admire the great Monet, one of the fathers of Impressionism. Bewitched by their reflexes over water, the artist painted water lilies until he grasped the essence of the color mirrored by the water. his innocent obsession for the colors worsened his eyesight, till the landscape he could see became the one he had been trying to paint and to render for us.

The great Van Gogh, too, couldn’t avoid the flowers’ fascination. His yellows, made using lead chromate, made his painting immortal, albeit at the price of a rebel insanity that characterized the personality of the painter. His colors, so vivid and whirling, revealed the power of Nature and its vibrant movement. The light of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers explodes in the intense yellow that pervades the scene.

Our digression ends with the Liberty style, also known as Flower Modernism or Art Nouveau. The movement seduced Europe between the 19th and the 20th centuries. During the age of Aestheticism and modernity, the East winds brought Oscar Wilde’s beloved blue china. The flowery and natural patterns cover walls and furniture, while artisans and artists indulge over complex, perfect and elegant arrangements.

Modernism and Art Nouveau

And finally, to pay our tribute to the city I now call home, Barcelona, the Catalan Modernism of the great Antoni Gaudí is always a source of inspiration while I stroll along the city’s streets. It’s architecture, the boulevards and parks, the buildings’ main doors are all adorned with refined sculptures of flowers and plants, surprising me every step I take. From Passeig de Gracia’s floor tiles, to the flowery crests of the magnificent cathedral of the Sagrada Familia, whose stained glass windows create a flowery forest to get lost and forget about time. The elegance and character of this artistic movement make Barcelona a cosmopolitan city, the cultural center to draw inspiration from, and compose and arrange my flower creations.