Some landscapes stay with us long after we’ve left them—not because we remember every detail, but because we remember how they made us feel. Through luminous layers of resin, light, and color, Italian artist Giusy Lauriola transforms memories, emotions, and nature into atmospheric paintings that invite us to experience the world from the inside out.
From Urban Stories to Interior Landscapes
We’ve all experienced places that stay with us long after we’ve left them.
A quiet stretch of coastline. A walk through the woods. Light reflected across the water one afternoon. Years later, the details fade, but the feeling remains.
Giusy Lauriola is an artist who is immersed in this world of feeling and wonder. Her landscapes don’t belong to a specific place. They’re somewhere between memory and imagination, built from fragments of nature, light, water, and emotion. At first glance, they seem familiar. Spend a little longer with them, though, and you begin to realize they aren’t asking you to recognize a location but to connect yourself to a feeling or memory.
Born and based in Rome, Lauriola didn’t always paint these atmospheric worlds. Earlier in her career, she explored urban life, social issues, and the city’s fast pace through photography, digital media, and painting. But as her practice evolved, so did her perspective. The streets disappeared, making room for a new perspective. Her attention shifted from documenting the world around her to exploring the one within.
How Giusy Lauriola Uses Resin to Paint with Light
Today, that inner landscape has become the foundation of her work. Using acrylic, enamel, and resin, Lauriola creates paintings that seem to hold light beneath their surface. It’s difficult to tell where one layer ends and another begins. Water becomes sky, Horizons dissolve, and rather than creating the illusion of depth, she creates the sensation of stepping into another atmosphere.
One of the defining moments in her practice came in 2010, when she began working with resin. For many artists, it’s simply a material, but for Lauriola, it became a collaborator. Resin catches the light, softens the edges between colors, and gives her paintings a luminous quality that changes throughout the day. As you move around the work, reflections shift, and surfaces come alive, making each viewing feel slightly different from the last.
Exploring Nature, Memory, and the Human Experience
Works by Guisy Lauriola: PERIMETRO ACQUOSO (Left) IMMERSA IN UN SOGNO ACQUOSO (Middle) RAPSODIA IN BLU (Right)
That sense of transformation is especially present in her recent series, Atmosfere Sospese (Suspended Atmospheres). Tiny human figures appear within vast, open landscapes, often standing alone against expanses of water or sky. They’re never the focus of the composition, yet somehow they become impossible to ignore. They give scale to the landscape, but they also remind us of ourselves: the small moments of presence within something much larger.
Nature plays an increasingly important role in Lauriola’s work. She isn’t interested in painting places exactly as they appear. Instead, rivers, horizons, forests, and reflections become emotional spaces. The female figure, which appears throughout her recent work, seems to emerge from these environments rather than stand apart from them, blurring the boundary between body and landscape.
Beyond the Canvas
Over the past two decades, her work has been exhibited throughout Italy and internationally, including at the MACRO Museum, the Museo di San Salvatore in Lauro, the Aranciera di San Sisto and La Vaccheria in Rome, as well as at the Museo Correale di Terranova in Sorrento. Her work has also been presented through the Italian Cultural Institutes in Damascus and Tokyo, and in museums and galleries in Greece and beyond. More recently, she was named a finalist for the Singulart International Women’s Day Award, in recognition of a practice that continues to evolve while remaining deeply rooted in its own visual language.
What makes Giusy Lauriola’s work so compelling is its quiet ability to hold our attention. Rather than offering answers, her paintings leave space for reflection, inviting us to bring our own memories, emotions, and experiences into the work. In doing so, they remind us that the most meaningful journeys aren’t always the ones we take across the world. They’re the ones that unfold within us.
Content writer on the marketing team at Singulart, where she started her journey in sales before moving into Content management and marketing. Originally from the US and based in Paris, she writes about art interiors. Work with many different communities of both artist and creatives, she knows what it means to build and nourish a creative vision.
