Barbara S Stamegna - Deep Down Inside

Deep Down Inside is a work of strong spiritual and symbolic intensity, in which the pictorial matter becomes a metaphor for an inner journey toward light. Created in 2021 on a canvas that had been painted years earlier, the work was born through an authentic process of transformation: the artist reworked the piece, layering new strata of color and meaning over the previous composition, in a gesture that reflects both personal and artistic evolution.
The surface is dominated by deep shades of blue, turquoise, and white, crossed by golden lines that move like energetic traces or subtle vibrations. The textured areas, achieved essentially through the paint itself, through newspaper clippings and elements of nature, create reliefs and ripples that enhance the tactile and luminous perception of the work. The composition suggests an inner landscape: from the darker, denser areas, a central light gradually emerges, symbolizing the luminous presence safeguarded in the heart of every human being.
On the back of the painting there is a handwritten dedication by the artist, which reads:
“Deep Down Inside” is a painting that symbolically represents the light that shines at the bottom of everyone's heart, coming from our soul, with the wish that this light may illuminate our whole being and everything and everyone that surrounds us.
There is also a phrase written on the wooden stretcher dating back several years — “total darkness inside, no signs of life; stay calm and relax, new thoughts will come by” — a testimony to an earlier phase in the artist’s artistic and spiritual journey, with which she no longer fully identifies. This element makes the work even more meaningful: Deep Down Inside does not arise from thought, but from its absence — from a state of deep listening in which light emerges spontaneously from matter.
Reserved and not inclined toward words, Barbara S. Stamegna finds in painting her most authentic expressive medium to communicate profound, ethical, and inner content. Her choice to sign her works with her first and last name in opposite directions reflects her vision of art as a subjective and transformative experience, in which the final meaning arises from the encounter between artwork and observer. In recent years, her artistic name has consolidated as Barbara S Stamegna, emphasizing a recognizable identity also at an international level.
The work fully reflects the poetics of Barbara S Stamegna, a Roman artist born in 1971, whose creative path is guided by a constant spiritual quest. Professionally active since 1991, she has received important national and international recognitions, including the Oscar Prize for Visual Arts in Castrocaro Terme, the Gran Premio d’Italia, the Coppa Pacis Prize in Florence, the Milanart Prize, the Europa Art Mediolanum Prize in Milan, and the International Portugal Prize (City of Lisbon). She has exhibited in important venues in Italy, including the renowned Via Margutta in Rome, and abroad in solo and group exhibitions, participating several times in Artexpo New York. In 2023, she presented the four-month solo exhibition “Le Vie dello Spirito” at Palazzo Caetani in Cisterna di Latina. Her works are part of public and private collections in the United States and Europe.
Deep Down Inside is a unique and particularly significant work in the artist’s journey: a painting of rebirth and awareness, ideal for collectors sensitive to contemporary research-based art and to the symbolic value of inner transformation.
Due to the richness of its material texture and chromatic layering, photography may not fully convey the depth, luminous variations, and vibrational quality of the original surface.
Artist: Barbara S Stamegna

Title: Deep Down Inside

Year: 2021

Technique: Mixed media on canvas with textured interventions achieved through paint, newspaper clippings and elements of nature.

Dimensions: 60 × 100 cm – Depth: 1.5 cm

Signed lower left in oil paint and on the reverse in black marker.
Original painting sold directly by the artist, with Certificate of Authenticity.
The painting is in excellent condition and is unframed.
The artwork will be carefully packaged and shipped.
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