Ceramic Artist
Patrizia Italiano lives in Sicily, between the sea of
the Aeolian islands and the town of Palermo. Filicudi is for her an endless
source of inspiration and research.Pottery has always been her passion. Manual
labour and creativity have guided her throughout her life. Since a very young
age, Patrizia has exhibited her work around the world, in places such as Milan,
New York, Tokyo and the Emirates. Following a long period of inactivity, she
has just begun working again as an artist and artisan, and has set up an
independent studio in Palermo.Her talent and creativity are evident in each
exquisite piece of artwork. Her greatest passions, clay and the sea, follow her
everywhere and forever.The magical island of Filicudi, to which she is
hopelessly devoted, is her life's accomplice - she carries within her its
colours, smells, landscapes and sunsets; its old, stone-paved paths and
dry-stone walls; its green-blue sea that evokes submerged worlds of fish,
crabs, coral, sea shells, dolphins... She gives life to her sculptures - of
mermaids and the heads of market vendors;they are imbued with her Sicily.
Mermaids are the archetype par excellence of femininity:
strong and alluring, seductive and often ...
