Barbara S Stamegna - Glimmers of Joy

Glimmers of Joy is an intense and vibrant work, where color becomes spiritual language and living matter. The pictorial surface is traversed by a rich and dynamic stratification of enamels and acrylics, applied with energetic and instinctive gestures, that give life to a continuous dialogue between fullness and emptiness, light and depth. The raised elements, created exclusively through the use of color, amplify the tactile perception of the work, inviting the eye to move slowly among the shapes, like an emotional map to explore.
The composition, apparently abstract, suggests symbolic fragments and traces of archetypal forms that emerge and dissolve within the pictorial space. The warm tones of yellow and gold, interrupted by greens, blues, and deeper accents, evoke sudden flashes of joy, inner insights, moments of awareness that surface amid the chaos of human experience. The work does not impose a single reading: on the contrary, it opens up to multiple interpretations, making the observer an active participant in the creative process. In this sense, Glimmers of Joy becomes an inner mirror, a place where each person can recognize their own personal experience of light and transformation.
This trait is deeply coherent with the poetics of Barbara S Stamegna, a Roman artist whose creative path is inextricably linked to a constant spiritual quest. Born in Rome in 1971, she has shown since childhood a marked predisposition for drawing and art, but it is starting from the early 1990s that she decisively pursues her artistic career, pairing the painting practice with an intense exploration of the spiritual world and of the different religious traditions, in search of universal truths.
A reserved artist who is not inclined to talk much, Barbara S. Stamegna finds in painting the most authentic expressive medium to communicate deep, ethical, and interior contents. The choice to sign the works with the first name and surname in opposite directions reflects her vision of art as a subjective and transformative experience, in which the final meaning arises from the encounter between the work and the observer. In recent years, her artistic name has consolidated as Barbara S Stamegna, to emphasize an identifiable identity signature now recognizable also at an international level.
In the course of his career he has received numerous prestigious recognitions, including the Oscar Award for Visual Arts in Castrocaro Terme, the Grand Prize of Italy, the Pacis Cup Award in Florence, the Milanart award and the Europe Art Mediolanum Award in Milan, and the International Portugal Award (City of Lisbon). He has exhibited in important venues in Italy, including the famous Via Margutta in Rome, and abroad with solo and group exhibitions, participating several times in Artexpo New York, and in 2023 he presented the four-month solo exhibition “The Ways of the Spirit” at Palazzo Caetani in Cisterna di Latina. His works are part of public and private collections in the United States and in Europe.
Glimmers of Joy fully embodies Barbara S. Stamegna’s artistic maturity: a work capable of uniting material strength, chromatic sensitivity, and spiritual depth, ideal for collectors attentive to contemporary inquiry-driven art and to the symbolic and emotional value of the unique piece.
Artist: Barbara S Stamegna
Title: Glimmers of Joy
Technique: Enamels and acrylic paints on a rigid wood-fiber panel, with three-dimensional textural interventions.
Dimensions: 35 x 26 cm – Depth: 3mm
Signed in the top left corner with acrylic paint, and on the back with a black marker.
Original painting sold directly by the artist, with Certificate of Authenticity.
The painting is in excellent condition and is equipped with provisional hanging hardware on the back, used to display the painting in a solo exhibition. It is without a frame.
The work will be properly packaged and shipped.
The shipment will be made within 10 business days from the receipt of payment, taking into account any bureaucratic delays.