- ROBERTA VOLPE
- VISUAL ARTIST
- LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.
Roberta Volpe is an Italian Artist and award-winning Set Designer based in London. Her painting style expresses itself through textured explosions of colours and silhouettes that emerge from a blurred background that are expressed in energetic brushstrokes.
ROBERTA’S ART STATEMENT:
Painting, like any other form of art, is a language and as such, must speak in itself. To use words to describe one of my paintings would be using another medium. I want the observer to find himself; recognize himself by observing one of my works and for this dialogue to happen, you don’t need words. My research aims to represent what words cannot express. My works have their own history and a life of their own expressed in their titles.
ABOUT ROBERTA:
Born in Milan, Roberta trained in Set Design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and Set and Costume Design at the Opera Academy of Verona. She did her apprenticeship at Teatro La Scala in Milan, where she mastered her skills as a sculptor and painter. Roberta made her debut as a set designer in 2011 at the Amazonas Theatre in Manaus, Brazil, with the opera ‘Suor Angelica’ by Puccini. In 2013 she moved to London where she worked with various theatre and event companies. One of the events she designed in 2018 won the EVCOM event design award for the best celebration event. During this time she developed her love for painting by working as a Scenic Artist for the Royal Opera House and in the West End, painting the set of major musicals like The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables and Mamma Mia! In 2019 she opened her studio, and she started to develop her style, inspired by the techniques she used to apply in theatre. In 2021 she gained her PGCE in Art and Design at Goldsmiths University. She is teaching Art and continuing develop her research on texture and silhouette.
ARTWORKS FOR SALE BY ROBERTA VOLPE