Giorgia De Stefano is a painter, born in Rome. She now lives and works in London.

 

She works in oil and, more recently, also raw pigment, drawn to its dry, earthen weight. The surfaces of her paintings are scratched, rubbed and worked into being, often through a process that feels close to frustration: a repeated attempt to find an image through the resistance of the material. Each painting develops through this struggle between control and accident, allowing a form to emerge while resisting final definition.

 

Her interest is not in material alone, but in the point where paint begins to suggest the body: flesh, pressure, touch, tenderness and violence. In a world saturated with information, she looks for something older and more physical, a kind of poetry that might still live in the instincts of the body and the earth.