ALGHE Artwork

Ciao, hello, I am Giorgia Melagrana, Italian artist and model, my heart is in England, my spirit is free. I was born in Fano on the Adriatic Coast of Italy in 1990, a town that dates from the days of the Roman Empire. But I grew up and discovered my future in my parents’ historical restaurant in nearby Furlo, which is a small village set in a deep gorge at the centre of a wonderful nature reserve. Throughout my childhood, I roamed the restaurant and talked to people who stirred my imagination and set alight my fascination for art and life. I always had a great attitude towards arts, design and fashion. I initially started to paint for myself, later on I hung up some of my paintings in the restaurant and now I am pleased to write about them, and because they knew that I loved art from a very young age, my parents told me that as soon as I was old enough, I should study art, music, and performing arts at the DAMS University in Bologna (one of the oldest in the world). On a pictorial level, the first experiments on canvas were born between 2011 and 2012, i love acrylic colors which have an immediate hold on the canvas, but i also use natural pigments (iron oxide, malachite powder, jade green..) with which i create my custom shades.When I was 11 years old, I suddenly understood that I had inherited my mother’s strength and wisdom, and my father’s grace and elegance. And because they knew that I loved art from a very young age, my parents told me that as soon as I was old enough, I should study art, music, and performing arts at the DAMS University in Bologna (one of the oldest in the world) When I was 18, I decided to progress from drawings and clay models, to pottery and full-sized canvasses. And I am proud to say that those canvasses are still on the walls of my parents’ restaurant. Then when I was 21, I started using acrylics because I like the way acrylic paint grips the canvas. And having grown up with the passionate belief that beauty can be captured in life, words, and art, I was soon studying at the art school “Scuola del libro” in Urbino. Then, I moved to Bologna to fulfil my childhood dream of studying at DAMS University. And I also became an international fashion model. In my travels, I have visited many places around the world. And I have seen places in Europe, America, Asia that have enriched my love of art and form.