ROBERT VENAFRO

Though I am creating art, I am evoking an emotion. That conviction has guided fifteen years of practice. Robert Venafro's work prioritises the felt experience over representation, capturing atmospheric depth that moves between tranquillity, longing, and awe. You do not simply look at these paintings. You enter them. Working exclusively with a knife, his self-taught mastery of Impasto produces surfaces that are sculpturesque, tactile, and alive. Expansive oil paintings and intimate miniatures share the same driving force: a sense of place that is as much interior as it is geographical. Landscapes and seascapes become the language. Emotion is what they say. Now in his seventh decade, Venafro has arrived at Ipseity, absolute selfhood, hard-earned and uncompromising. Drawing from a life in finance before the brush became his primary language, he brings something rare to the canvas. The story he is painting is his emotion. And yours, to discover. www.venafrobob.com