Eva D'Amico

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Short Biography
Eva D’Amico was born in Rome, Italy. Passionate about painting since she was thirteen, she started showing her work in Italy in 2006. In Rome she had several instructors, studied drawing, painting, figure drawing, ceramics and painting restoration. Meanwhile she earned her university Degree in Chinese and English Language and Literature and her Ph.D in History and Civilization of East Asia from the university of Rome La Sapienza. She worked in an Art and Handicraft shop on the island of Ponza (Italy) in 2007, gaining experience in painting on different surfaces (ceramic tiles, china, oil painting on wood and canvas). Two years later, in 2009, she moved to San Diego where she studied art at Grossmont and Cuyamaca Community Colleges. In 2011 she joined the Museum of the Living Artist, San Diego Art Institute and she has shown her work there and in the San Diego area. After earning a Master in Teaching of Italian Language and Culture from the university of Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy, in 2013, she has been working as an Italian and Mandarin language professor at Southwestern Community College and Mesa College..


Artist Statement
My work has been inspired by philosophical and spiritual symbolism: the tree of life, the shell, which is a symbol of enlightenment in Buddhism; the inner child; the relationship between man and nature from a Taoist perspective; the interconnection of all things; Buddha; Guanyin bodhisattva; the Hamsa, which is a symbol of divine protection and good luck in various cultural traditions; the feathers, a symbol of divine protection and spiritual connection; the snake; the owl. A recurrent image in my paintings is the tree. I see the tree as a symbol of spiritual growth and the interconnection of all things. Separation is an illusion. What we see as separate is really connected: suffering contains non-suffering, the problem contains the solution, the relative contains the absolute. In my work interconnectedness is also represented by using abstraction and realism in the same painting. My work is mostly abstract and symbolic and combines spiritual, philosophical and personal symbolism.
Lately my work has been mainly inspired by the experience of nature, its healing powers and the revelation of the meaning of life.
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