Giorgia Oldano

Giorgia Oldano found in drawing the best way to express herself and convey emotions. The protagonists of her paintings are animals that are always portrayed in order to enhance their gaze. Since 2014 she has abandoned color to devote herself exclusively to pencil drawing, a technique that will lead her to evolve her work by deepening the study of animals in their natural environment. In 2017 she returned to study engraving techniques, such as chalcography and monotype, thus obtaining many ways to investigate nature with different results. Her sensitivity towards the animal world is in fact declined here in an almost fairytale way, and natural and animal elements become a reason and pretext to tell the stories of the world of children's fiction.

Giorgia Oldano was born in Turin in 1984. She graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin and in 2016 she moved to Milan. In 2012 she won the prize for Best Wildlife Italian Artist. This national award gave her the unique opportunity to travel to Africa, throughout Malawi and Zambia. In 2013 she won as International Artist in the Mammals category at BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 competition in England. In 2013, 2014 and from 2016 to 2020 she was selected to show at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum for the prestigious annual exhibition BIRDS IN ART, in central Wisconsin. In 2017 she won the first prize of the national competition Be Natural/Be Wild held during Selvatica, arte e natura in festival in Biella. She lives and works in Milan.