Barbara Nicoletto - SMOOTH SAILING

- Directly from the studio of the Artist Barbara Nicoletto.
Title: Smooth Sailing, part of the Essential Line, a series centered on formal reduction and the balance between sign, space, and matter. The work develops through an essential composition, where the landscape dissolves into a few structural elements, letting emerge a suspended, timeless vision.
The sea becomes a reflective surface and mental space, while the architectures and nautical references are reduced to traces, almost visual notes, that guide the gaze naturally. The brushstroke is controlled yet expressive, built for light stratifications that grant depth without weighing down the image.
The color palette, sober and refined, is interrupted by calibrated accents that introduce rhythm and visual tension, maintaining a strong sense of overall harmony. The paper support applied on a stretched canvas reinforces the dialogue between delicacy and structure, a distinctive element of the series.
An artwork conceived for collectors and contemporary interiors, capable of elegantly integrating into modern spaces, while offering an intimate and contemplative reading.

Original piece, ready to hang.-

Dim. 80 cm x 80 cm x 2 cm. thickness.

'BARBARA NICOLETTO’ - Italian Artist.
January 1968 - Padua
Active between Reggio Emilia and Padua.

Always passionate about art and drawing, she continued studies at the Pietro Selvatico Art Institute in Padua with a painting specialization, experimenting with various representational techniques such as watercolor, tempera, acrylic, ink, oil, and printmaking techniques thanks to masters deeply knowledgeable of the oldest techniques, reinterpreted with new formulas and current methods that make her an ever-innovative and experimental artist.

Her search for new stimuli and evolutionary balances leads her to collaborate in the world of sport, actively blending different disciplines for physical and psychological well-being, which, mixed with the visual arts first, collaborate and support her until guiding her hand in teaching artistic disciplines and toward new professional objectives.
Her Art can only evolve and change with the mood and curious personality!
She rarely presents herself with a single recognizable artistic persona in a linear production line, but it will emerge and astonish with its eclectic mutability.

1989/2011 - She continues her work in the furniture sector as a designer for several important companies in Veneto and Elia Romagna.
2017 to present - Independent Artist; Atelierist, painting student and related subjects at Reart Reggio Emilia.
She continues experimentation also thanks to her great passion for other cultures abroad, deepening her knowledge of analog and digital photography, with inspiration for her works.
Her curiosity for different modes of expression in art brings her closer to ceramics, with Raku her favorite.
The technique will be learned and deepened in the great workshop of master Nico Toniolo of Marostica.
She participates in various art competitions with works that receive jury recognition such as the first prize at Raku Padova Arts in 2001. Further study of the illusionistic technique of marble and stone such as travertine and Carrara marble.
*Currently her most used technique is evolving oil painting, thanks to the blending of mat grounds mixed with ultramarine blue, metallic oxides, pumice, and whatever moment or opportunity brings to her at that time.
Deep animal gazes, distant peoples, moons and fantastic landscapes!
*She works and evolves an innovative original and abstract Sealing style. Unique of its kind.
She participates in numerous exhibitions with subjects and themes always different, making her works appear as if by different hands, all thanks to her imaginative and eclectic transformative ability.
*Her fertile mind leads her to approach art with a new deeper and more subjective gaze, stripping it of paradigms with which it is labeled, returning it to its true nature, that of speaking the language of feelings and the deepest instincts of humanity while bypassing words. After three years of study she earned the title of Art Therapist recognized by UNI PRO.

Most significant exhibitions for painting works:

2009/2011 - MoMArt the art showcase, Artists in the square, Collective in Padua
2014 - Talking About Art, collective in Camogli at Art Gallery
2014 - Solo exhibition at Monte di Portofino Community
2014 - Madonna dei Gotti collective organized by the Municipality of Camogli - Liguria
2015 - Le mers e le Mond Lontains solo show in Campegine
2016 - The Museum in the Window bipersonal at CA’ DEI CARRARESI Museum in Treviso
2017 - LE FATE IGNORANTI tri-personal at REART Gallery in Reggio Emilia with Iara Marzulli and Tina Sgrò
2017 - REART Gallery Christmas collective
2018 - Reggia di Rivalta, Collective at Palazzo Ducale, Rivalta
2018 - Collective at Villa Castello La Tenuta di Caccia in Regnano
2018 - Padova Arte Fiera exhibiting for Galleria REART
2019 - TRE LUNE tri-personal with Alessandra Binini and Barbara Giavelli at Galleria REART
2019 - 500 Leonardo Forever – Leonardo's 500th anniversary at Tecnopolo – Reggio Emilia
2019 - Art Parma Fair 2019 – Padua Art Fair exhibited at REART Gallery
2020 - RADIUM ARTIS – Marina di Pietrasanta - Tripersonal San Martino in Rio – Reggio Emilia
2021 - NO TIME / NO SPACE Tripersonal at RADIUM ARTIS
2022 - MA EC – Milan - 1st prize for work ‘Alone’ in AMBIENTARTI III art competition organized by ARTSPACE
2022 - Personal ARTETERAPY study path, three-year program at Centro Sarvas. Reggio Emilia
2022 - TRAINING WORKSHOP for illusionistic marble painting technique – Rome
2024 - Exhibition, Tripersonal in Modena at Artekyp with new line ‘Sealing’.

Humanistic experiences

2011/2017 - Personal Trainer – training methods used post-training recognized: SLOWFIT (Pilates, medical-relaxation, stretching) Functional, Crossactive and Postural, as well as muscular strengthening workouts. Virgin Active. Reggio Emilia.

2024 - Intern at: ‘AIMA’ Reggio Emilia; Matilde di Canossa Primary School Reggio Emilia.
2025 - Professional ART Therapist UNI.PRO. Three-year program at Centro Sarvas. Reggio Emilia

2017/2025 - Painting and related arts teacher for group and individual participants of all ages. Reart.Reggio Emilia

2025 - Creative Painting Teacher at Centro Sarvas. Reggio Emilia

Main artistic events

(Repeated list of exhibitions and events as above.)

Personal interests and hobbies

- Reading of various kinds, often with psychological, adventurous, and cultural undertones.
- Photography.
- Cinema and museum visits.
- Travel abroad with nature-ethnographic destinations.
- Disciplines and culture mainly of general Eastern orientation.
- Passionate about cooking, including culinary journeys.
- Loves animals; a cat is usually a roommate.
- Roaming the streets without a destination.
- Using a bicycle when possible.
- Running or walking outdoors.
- Single sport.
- Gardening and tending plants of every possible species to cultivate.

Her logo and signature: The Dragon