MEET EMILIANO MARINI
Emiliano Marini was born in Terni, Italy, in 1983. He began studying life painting in 2013 with the painter Marco De Sio. From 2015 he continued to refine his technique solo, studying the works of painters such as Velazquez, Rembrandt, John Singer Sargent and Antonio Mancini. His main focus over the past few years has been en plein air painting and alla prima portraiture.
In 2020 Emiliano was selected by Workshops in France as the only winner of a scholarship to consolidate his knowledge in oil painting, studying with American artists Susan Lyon and Scott Burdick. He also attended the “Americans in Paris” workshop, painting alongside Casey Childs, Olga Krimon, Michelle Dunaway, Aldo Balding and Vanessa Rothe.
In 2022 he won a scholarship to study with the Russian artist Leonid Ilyukhin at the Vivarium Novum Academy in Frascati, where he studied drawing and painting classical subjects from life.
In 2023 Emiliano returned to France to study urban and natural landscapes en plein air with the renowned watercolorist Joseph Zbukvic. He also worked on dynamic figures with the Chinese painter Lisa Wang.
Emiliano was awarded second place in the Sulle vie del Grand Tour watercolor contest sponsored by the International Watercolor Academy and Vivarium Novum Academy.
In 2023 he attended a workshop in Scotland with the American painter Daniel Gerhartz. In 2024 he went to France to study alla prima Portrait and Figure with David Shevlino and Still Life in Oil with Sarah Sedwick.
He has exhibited in various collective and personal exhibitions in various parts of Italy. His paintings can be found in private collections in Italy and abroad.
Emiliano currently teaches oil and watercolor painting at the Cagliari Academy of Art and Artemisia. He regularly holds workshops in Italy and overseas. He is a member of the Portrait Society of America.
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