Elvira Elia

Elvira Elia, born and resident in Abbadia Lariana Oggiono, is a self-taught artist who has reached very high levels in a short time much of the formal perfection of poetic inspiration, particularly in the context of portraiture, using, in addition to oil, the unique technique of ink dots, ranging with the same results of high artistic value from landscapes to still lifes, portraits from original tributes to the great masters of the past.His portraits are very original result, so intense when they are made in black and white with ink as sweet and serene when used oil and thus prevails over any color. Often the expression of the faces, our own or ethnic, is a bit 'surreal, sometimes great pride shines through them, sometimes intimate and dramatic existential anxiety, sometimes more, especially when it is the only one to appear on the face canvas but the whole figure, the pose is slightly sensual and provocative.Many of the presence of Elvira Elijah, who is also known and appreciated for his painting courses made in recent years in Oggiono, in solo and group exhibitions and festivals, both in Italy and abroad, especially in France, from Paris to Loire Valley.