Francesco Poiana’s practice is based around drawing, painting and printmaking and is usually concerned with landscape themes. The process often starts from an experience with particular qualities of light, memory and colour.

He says that drawing is the discipline he practices every day and in which he expresses himself best since he knows himself. The distance between drawing and printmaking has become short alongside the collaboration with the celebrated stamperia d’arte Albicocco in Italy, of whom he has been attending the edition studio since 2018.

“Using my hands, heart and mind I wish to construct a language with which one can convey their imagination and find solutions and escapes in different realities. In my work I always feel the need to chase a theme that I have not yet caught, that moves and keeps opening, expanding possibilities. In my urgency to create, I become lost and discover a new self.”

Poiana’s works represent an intimate voyage – towards the image of an intangible place, imagined only in daydreams.