Joseph Colella - Artist
Old masters, made new:
colour bends the way you see,
story, feeling first.
Working to keep the discipline and spirituality of the old masters alive in art that belongs to the present. Colour is used to bend the viewer's reality and offer another way of seeing, always in service of the subject, the story and the feeling behind it.
Self-taught and working since 1990, with original pieces in private collections across Italy, the UK, the USA and Australia.
The gallery below represents an archive of my earlier work: portraits, car drawings and studies after the old masters, made between 1990 and 2009 in pencil, oil, pastel and mixed media. These pieces are not for sale. They show where my practice comes from.
You can find prints and print on demand services of my hand-drawn designs in the Shop. Read the Artist Statement to see how the older work connects to what I'm making now.
