Argentine artist, Renatta, was born in Buenos Aires in 1979. 

 

Her passion for art began when she was very young and at the age of 17 she painted a mural in Santos Lugares, her home town, before receiving a certified diploma from critically acclaimed novelist, essayist and painter, Ernesto Sábato. She then went on to study graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires and then ‘Ontological Coaching’, specialising in emotional management, with her thesis based on ‘How to redesign an emotion through art’.

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Renatta can be described as a contemporary abstract expressionist: an artist influenced by authentic and raw emotion.  Her approach to her work is existential, with an innate desire to draw the viewer into her world, or as she puts it, “...not to dazzle the soul but to bring about thoughts and feelings about the meaning of existence”. Her subject matter is nature, most often, the stars, earth, trees and water.

 

She works in an almost alchemizing way, letting the paint drip through her fingers and knowing instinctively which colours and mediums to use, so to achieve her objective on the canvas. Turquoise or blue rivers appear and subtle tones sit amongst energetic and swirling brushstrokes. She leaves alone the spontaneous or slightly governed to make its way across the surface, and uses a mixture of different colours and mediums, including quartz sand, to achieve the palette and texture she desires. In so doing, creates compositions that are both visually arresting and contemplative.

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