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Sandra Chinelate signs an original oil painting titled SAFE WATERS, measuring 50 × 50 cm, unframed, created in 2026, with a certificate of authenticity.
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Title: SAFE WATERS
Oil painting on ultra-fine grain canvas
No frame
Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm
Year: 2026
With certificate of authenticity
Fully painted profiles plus hanging hook make the work ready to hang.
INSTAGRAM: @sandrachinelate
There is a suspended moment in which every presence remains unfamiliar and every encounter is a possibility. In the water, two worlds brush past each other in silence, as curiosity makes space and distance learns to dissolve. Because even the most unknown place sometimes awaits only someone to welcome it and become a home.
Sandra Chinelate is an Italian-Brazilian artist, educated in Literary Studies, who finds in hyperrealist painting the privileged language of her research. Self-taught since childhood, she develops a painting sensibility based on meticulous observation of reality, exploring light, matter, transparency and depth through a technique capable of conveying an extraordinary visual presence to her subjects.
Her research focuses on the precision of detail and the perceptual complexity of things, transforming objects and compositions into visually striking experiences. Through refined balances of light, color and perspective, Chinelate investigates what everyday gaze often overlooks, revealing the hidden beauty in the texture of surfaces and in the relationship between forms, volumes and reflections.
Having moved to Italy, she pursues a personal artistic path in which the technical rigour of hyperrealism interweaves with a deep aesthetic sensibility. She mainly works with oil colors and mixed techniques on canvas and panel.
Since 2005 she has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions.
Her works are visible on Instagram: @sandrachinelate
Seller's Story
Sandra Chinelate is an Italian-Brazilian artist with a degree in Literature who lives and works in Italy. Since 2005 she has embarked on an intense and constant dialogue with art, developing a painting practice deeply rooted in the physical and existential investigation of the human being through the tools of figurative painting.
Self-taught artist since childhood, Sandra Chinelate brings to her creative practice a sensitivity nurtured also by humanistic training and her sociolinguistic gaze. Having moved to Italy, she has oriented her research toward the representation of humanity in its multiple expressions, promoting an ideal meeting between individuals and different realities. In her works, age, skin colors, passions, fragility, and questions of existence coexist, observed with respect and returned without prejudice.
Her painting is born from the desire to exalt the infinite facets of the human being, giving dignity and depth to every subject depicted. With equal dedication she focuses on the study of detail, light, and perspective—elements that characterize her personal interpretation of hyperrealism, an expressive language in which she has specialized since her first artistic experiments.
Since 2005 she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, working mainly with oil and mixed media on canvas and panel.
For the catalog of one of her most important solo exhibitions, the Roman art critic Lea Mattarella dedicated a meaningful review to the artist, concluding with these words: “And if there is pain, if there is effort, Chinelate takes to heart the words of Rumi, the medieval Sufi poet, convinced that ‘the wound is the point from which light can enter inside you.’”
This vision seems to thread through Sandra Chinelate’s entire poetics: the light that emerges from vulnerability becomes the principle through which the artist interprets the human soul and the world of objects. In her works, people and things share the same balance of importance and order, taking part in a visual narrative that celebrates the complexity of existence and the possibility of transforming every experience into awareness and beauty.
Translated by Google TranslateTitle: SAFE WATERS
Oil painting on ultra-fine grain canvas
No frame
Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm
Year: 2026
With certificate of authenticity
Fully painted profiles plus hanging hook make the work ready to hang.
INSTAGRAM: @sandrachinelate
There is a suspended moment in which every presence remains unfamiliar and every encounter is a possibility. In the water, two worlds brush past each other in silence, as curiosity makes space and distance learns to dissolve. Because even the most unknown place sometimes awaits only someone to welcome it and become a home.
Sandra Chinelate is an Italian-Brazilian artist, educated in Literary Studies, who finds in hyperrealist painting the privileged language of her research. Self-taught since childhood, she develops a painting sensibility based on meticulous observation of reality, exploring light, matter, transparency and depth through a technique capable of conveying an extraordinary visual presence to her subjects.
Her research focuses on the precision of detail and the perceptual complexity of things, transforming objects and compositions into visually striking experiences. Through refined balances of light, color and perspective, Chinelate investigates what everyday gaze often overlooks, revealing the hidden beauty in the texture of surfaces and in the relationship between forms, volumes and reflections.
Having moved to Italy, she pursues a personal artistic path in which the technical rigour of hyperrealism interweaves with a deep aesthetic sensibility. She mainly works with oil colors and mixed techniques on canvas and panel.
Since 2005 she has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions.
Her works are visible on Instagram: @sandrachinelate
Seller's Story
Sandra Chinelate is an Italian-Brazilian artist with a degree in Literature who lives and works in Italy. Since 2005 she has embarked on an intense and constant dialogue with art, developing a painting practice deeply rooted in the physical and existential investigation of the human being through the tools of figurative painting.
Self-taught artist since childhood, Sandra Chinelate brings to her creative practice a sensitivity nurtured also by humanistic training and her sociolinguistic gaze. Having moved to Italy, she has oriented her research toward the representation of humanity in its multiple expressions, promoting an ideal meeting between individuals and different realities. In her works, age, skin colors, passions, fragility, and questions of existence coexist, observed with respect and returned without prejudice.
Her painting is born from the desire to exalt the infinite facets of the human being, giving dignity and depth to every subject depicted. With equal dedication she focuses on the study of detail, light, and perspective—elements that characterize her personal interpretation of hyperrealism, an expressive language in which she has specialized since her first artistic experiments.
Since 2005 she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, working mainly with oil and mixed media on canvas and panel.
For the catalog of one of her most important solo exhibitions, the Roman art critic Lea Mattarella dedicated a meaningful review to the artist, concluding with these words: “And if there is pain, if there is effort, Chinelate takes to heart the words of Rumi, the medieval Sufi poet, convinced that ‘the wound is the point from which light can enter inside you.’”
This vision seems to thread through Sandra Chinelate’s entire poetics: the light that emerges from vulnerability becomes the principle through which the artist interprets the human soul and the world of objects. In her works, people and things share the same balance of importance and order, taking part in a visual narrative that celebrates the complexity of existence and the possibility of transforming every experience into awareness and beauty.
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Edition
Original
Artist
Sandra Chinelate
Title of artwork
SAFE WATERS
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
50 cm
Width
50 cm
Depiction/theme
Interior scene
Style
Realism
Period
2020+
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