GIOVANNI BALZARANI

Giovanni Balzarani is an Italian painter; he attended the School of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.

He discovered the watercolour world when he was 9 years old, then he explored other painting techniques in his artistic studies.
He has joined and won awards into national events with various techniques, from photography to oil painting.

Recently he has joined the watercolour international scene, where he has started to collect awards, participating in the Hong Kong First International Watercolour Biennale in 2016, as well as the Budapest First International Watercolour Festival and Fabriano in Watercolor. In 2017 he has been chosen as judge and Still Life Italian leader in Fabriano in Watercolor, become a member of National Watercolor Society and winner of the Watercolor category in the Jackson’s Open Painting Prize. In 2018 he has been again the Italian Country Community Leader in Fabriano in Watercolor.

His work is mainly focused on still life in the hyper realistic style, influenced by Pop- art and Photorealism artists such as Andy Warhol, Ralph Goings and Chuck Close. His painting style is very refined, complex and full of details and his main subject is glass and his reflections, metal objects of the contemporary daily life.

From the Autumn 2017 he become the Italian Endorser of Daniel Smith Extrafine Watercolours.

He lives, works and paints in Latina (near Rome).




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