Carina Francioso is a multi-award-winning Canadian fine artist whose work can be seen in private and corporate collections all over the world. Her contemporary realist oil paintings reflect her rigorous attention to detail. Carina’s paintings, which are inspired by her life and travels, capture moments frozen in time while also inspiring the viewer’s imagination, allowing them to create their interpretation. Carina’s art evolves throughout time, yet her intimate journey with each brushstroke and detail remains the same. Her work is a clear representation of her love of life and her insatiable curiosity for beauty and fluidity.
She has spent her entire life around water and had no idea that it would find its way into her art until one summer in Italy when she captured the Ionian Sea. The view enthralled her, and she knew these pictures would have an impact on her next body of work.
Her paintings depict moments in time that are fixed in time, but they also excite the viewer’s imagination, allowing them to create their interpretation. She works as a contemporary painter to portray the world’s gift of water and to recognize the importance of cherishing and preserving it.
“I aim for meticulousness in my work because it gives me a sense of success and integrity: I honestly believe that every detail matters as much as the total,” said Carina.
My experiences with water have inspired my paintings and my goal is that my work will elicit meaningful memories or responses in the viewer, as water is universal and connects us all. I work in the traditional medium of oil paint because I find its rich texture helps to enhance the natural beauty of light on water, as well as to highlight the sea’s mysteriousness. When applied thinly the blending capabilities of oil paint can achieve and add a sensual and seductive quality to my work. In addition to smaller works, I often use large-scale canvases or wood panels as they help to heighten the memory of the experience, bringing it to life and enveloping the viewer into the vastness of the water.