Lucky Goldfishes Painting

Hovering between Tiepolo’s skies decoring old interiors in Venice and the vibrant light of the Caribbean Sea waves, between Mittel-European culture and emotional abstract art: the colours are symbols, representing emotions in space. This is a short introduction of Liz Milan’s artworks. The emotional element in her paintings should be emphasised from the very beginning. Striving to create contemporary works of art capable of expressing the deep meaning of life, while overcoming the hectic pace that modern society imposes on us, Liz Milan adopts a fusion of ancient and modern art. She blends age-old techniques, such as gilding, pigments and varnish, with bright acrylic colours for abstract painting. She employs unusual materials, including pieces of glass, stones, sands, collages, plastic objects, gold and silver foil. This technique gives a three-dimensional perception to her vivid paintings, where all shades of blue are predominant: deep, rich hues, bright cobalt and fascinating turquoise are applied as pigments and fixed on canvas. Like Renaissance artists, she is versatile and connects painting, installation, restoration and history of art in her work. Most of her paintings feature a reference to underwater life and its inner harmony. It is a reworking of the changing forms of the water element, she recreates shapes and lights in her own unique style. She is very active in protecting the sea from pollution and in 2019 she became snorkeling tour guide at WWF Marine Protected Area in Miramare, Trieste (Italy). Her intention is to raise people awareness of marine pollution through making large installations and works of art.