Isabella Scarpato - Salvata

Oil on canvas, signed
November 2025
Rome, Italy
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Presentation of the artist and their painting theme

Isabella Scarpato, now a teacher and painter, started painting at the age of 8.
She pursued artistic studies from high school, graduated in 1995 in painting, and qualified to teach in painting disciplines and fashion. The artist creates figurative-realistic artworks.
crossing two important painting phases.
The first artistic season sees her focused on African and Asian faces, with intense gazes and warm colors, unmistakably from distant lands between the East and Africa, countries of an unspoiled and authentic civilization. It is a period of loss, or rather, rediscovery. Embroideries, sash dresses, turbans, and accessories among the hair adorn a sanctuary where the artist loves to stay, and where she manages to seal the strong emotions she feels during very important years of her life. The second artistic season begins in 2013. We see on canvases and panels, of increasingly different sizes, Western faces, always female, of women of rare beauty. The faces of French, Russian, Scandinavian models populate her works, offering a spectacle of impressive elegance and refinement. Her palette brightens and becomes more vivid, warm colors cool down, and a dusty veil is lifted from her eyes, seeking clear colors, softened contrasts, and gentle lines, for a composition.
harmonious chromatic
Isabella searches online for the most interesting subjects, using a roll of daring and experimental photographers' shots, then chooses the emotion that most concerns her, the eyes that can give her immediate answers. She also decides to change something about the woman she has chosen: a scarlet earring, a puffed sleeve, a copper necklace, the color of a tunic—something that allows her to leave a mark and re-semantize the preferred image.
A true major goal stands behind her painting career: the search for female faces that can not only speak to her soul but also stimulate important questions. The emotional spectrum she brings to life is full of intensity and aesthetic beauty, a combination that invites silent observation and viewer identification, where they always find something of themselves in one of her works. Anger, disappointment, hope, rebellion, rest, challenge—these are just some of the themes that have made her women so beloved. Isabella has been exhibiting on Catawiki since November 2016, and until about ten years ago, she showcased her works physically in solo and group exhibitions in Naples, Rome, and Florence. Today, her works are chosen from Europe to the East, successfully inspiring new stories and questions, much to the artist’s satisfaction.
Primordial, only art is capable of possessing.