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Riccardo Clementi

Biography

Riccardo Clementi born in Rome, Italy.In 1986, after visiting friends in Seattle, Washington, Riccardo decided to emigrate to the U.S.and live in Seattle. Although he loved Italy, he found the country so sunny and too tempting to play outdoors, where as in Seattle, he could remain inside during the many rainy days and accomplish so much more painting. Riccardo Clementi paints from his imagination and memory of his life growing up in Italy. His paintings depict a charming world of tiled roofed villas tucked in the lush countrysides and villages of Italy, with vast vistas and views of the ocean, rolling hills, vines and bougainvillaea

Riccardo Clementi paintings are filled with rich, enticing colors of emerald greens, Mediterranean blues, warm browns and touches of reds and yellows

found in the gardens that flow through his paintings immersed in the atmosphere of his Italian heritage

It is a treat to watch Riccardo paint, surrounded by clay pots of many brushes, holding three brushes between each of the fingers on one hand while painting with a brush in the other dipping it into pots of thick bright paint.

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Every painting is unique, with very simple elements like brush and color one can create something beautiful. In some mysterious way a painting is magical.

Many people ask me why my paintings have so much sky.

It is the only element that you cannot manipulate.

You can shape a building; you can trim or shape a tree,

but not the sky. The sky is freedom.

I like to open a window where you see that which you normally cannot see,

this is total creation,

a window of purity in the world,

From 1992 to the present, Riccardo Clementi has had exhibits in Seattle galleries

such as Rovzar gallery, Lisa Harris gallery,Elka Rouskov gallery,

Kimzey Miller gallery,Mercer Island gallery, Artforte gallery.

The Underground Gallery in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

As well as the Galleria DeFelice in Spokane, WA. Attic gallery, OR

Riccardo's unique paintings draw us into a world that fills our imagination

One can almost step into his villas and experience the atmosphere of antiquity.

A certain mysterious quality found in Riccardo Clementi

work intrigues us and lures us into the windows of his world.

www.RiccardoClementi.com