Hi! I am Laura and I am an Italian artist. My father taught me the basics of how to draw and so I started drawing when I was very young. Even when I started studying Chemistry at the university, my passion for art has never left me. So I began to get passionate about digital illustration and to publish my first drawings on social networks. Now I have a bachelor's and a Master's degree in Chemistry and I live in Copenhagen following my dreams. I work using both digital and traditional media. Most of the time I work from imagination and very often I take inspiration from my dreams. 

You can notice that in many of my art pieces, the figures have not eyes. This is a characteristic of my style which is born gradually. The more I draw, the more I find natural to draw white eyes. I was inspired by another famous Italian artist: Amedeo Modigliani. He thought that the eyes are the soul's mirror, and for this reason he couldn't draw the eyes until he was sure to fully know the soul of the other person. 

I want to do the same. Even when I draw myself, I don't draw the eyes, because for me too is difficult to know myself. Furthermore I often draw fictional characters who come from my imagination, and for this reason they do not have a soul. I can't give a soul to something that doesn't exist. 

On the other hand it has also another meaning for me. It represents the loneliness in which we found ourselves in modern society. I believe that social media gave us the opportunity to put a thicker mask on our faces, making us become more distant from eachother. On Instagram or Facebook we all have perfect lives and no defects, but when you remove the reality between human interactions, the others start idealise you and you don't look like a person anymore. Then you start feeling pushed to maintain that ideal and simply force yourself to be something else. You feel misunderstood and alone and this leaves us with an emptiness inside that make us sad. 

Another characteristics of my style is a strong dark purple lines that defines the shapes. This is indicates the limits that we put to define ourselves and the others. The first paintings on canvas didn't have this line, but now I think that it suits me.