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Fantastic atmospheres, pastel color, glitters and relief writings: this is Alexia Molino, Roman illustrator, born in 1971. She held exhibitions, for example, at the “Mostra dei 100 pittori in via Margutta” [Show of the 100 painters in via Margutta]- Eataly- and she’s getting ready for the one at Santa’s house in Nemi, for the event “Natale d’Arte a Nemi” [Art Christmas in Nemi].
She discovered art through her family, with a painter mother, and two grandfathers working in the fields of restoration and wood decoration. According to her vocation, she studied gold working at the school of Art, and scenic design at the School of Fine Arts in Rome. “I discovered painting by chance, I feel like Geppetto in a certain way, because everything has started from a piece of parquet in excess, left on the balcony”, Alexia said. And from that piece of wood her tales came alive, with glitters, colors and a great imagination.
She has carried on, and draws inspiration from the things that happen to her every single day. She tries to turn and express in painting emotions, sensations, “like the poet does with the pen”.
Her paintings are close to children for their colors and shapes, but they communicate things only experience of adult people can interpret. Besides, Alexia cares to remind that her paintings fit “the child we bring inside us”.
The aim of the artist-mum (Alexia has two children) is “taking people into the magical world I really would like it to exist “, a world created by Alexia thanks to the passion for shapes, colors and journeys. Among the many places she has visited, we remember Alaska, a journey from which she drew a lot of inspiration.
One of the most complex pictures is “Ai bambini mai nati” [To never born children]: she dedicated it to herself and to all the other women had the misfortune of losing their babies, at the same time. “In this painting I want to imagine all the “never born children” happy and smiling, still in the womb of the mother, always playing cheerfully, in an eternal child world.” Effectively, in the left side there is Alexia (every woman could see herself in it) hugging her children; on the other, an enchanted world, watched by the moon. Alexia doesn’t want to make her audience sad, even if there’s something gloomy in the eyes of the illustrated mother. She wants to create something able to make her feel good, and the others too. She wants to make people think, not the way adults do, but with the typical spontaneity and authenticity of children. What’s the advice of a mother-artist to her colleagues? “You always need to believe in what you do, even accepting all the doors shut straight to your face, but always carrying on with a smile on the lips, and in the heart. Like I always write on my works, “It’s forbidden to trample on dreams”.”

“In the morning, before the kids wake up, colors on paintings have a different light, it seems like the hours of night sleeping relaxed the drawings, a little sketched the evening before. These are the best colors of the day, it’s like you can have a soft conversation with them. Evening, instead, is the most creative moment; my children take part too, and with them ideas multiply, the characters seem to come alive.”

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