First of all let me introduce myself, my name is Tanya Del Bello and I live in a small town in the Marche region. Born on 01/09/1975 in Johannesburg. My mother was South African and when I was about two years old, we returned to Italy, to my father’s country of origin, and since then we have always lived in Italy.
I have a diploma in the business and tourism sector. I am self-taught and drawing has always revolved around me since I was little. Following a very painful event in my life, I finally decided to take that course, the drawing course. Since then everything has transformed, and maybe I have too.
In various italian cities, I have had several collective and personal exhibitions, I have also received recognition for poetry, my “second love” together with oil painting.
I like to define myself as “an art intern with a blank canvas” because I realize that learning never stops and that art and imagination are “infinite”, I want to “make space” and organize ideas for my “new canvas”. I want to start from here.
I need to remember the commitment undertaken, the great energy and concentration used in certain delicate moments where, maybe, It was better to “run away” rather than live in the present. I choose to “ stay and believe” all the way.
So if you are wondering why to buy from me rather than from someone else, I simply answer because “I sell you a piece of my soul and my heart”, a piece of “my feeling” before selling a work.
My projects are aimed at everyone, anyone who wants to “adventure” and start “a little journey” but not only that, even for those who are simply curious and I hope, above all, to leave an emotion, a starting point for reflection because, today more than ever, we need humanity and humility to live. My biggest and most challenging project is without a doubt the Geraldine Ahimè project. It took a good seven years to “give substance” to the idea that was slowly maturing and I am proud of the patience invested. I would define it as an intriguing story, between reality and fantasy, where the protagonist, Geraldine, interacts with “special friends”, who have the task of “strengthening” the image and the concept.
In my paintings I will not give an explanation but rather a tool, “a key to understanding” through “her friends” and obviously through the image.
I deeply love “playing” with language, with expressions, with ways of saying. In Geraldine’s paintings you will find many connections between words and images.
These works tell of the passions, torments, illusions, defeats and victories of every human being. These works are a daring and allegorical “staging” of the absurdities that life reserves for us, being, at times, more surreal than imagination itself. I don’t limit myself to describing figuratively but I try to impress on the observer the hidden meaning that the work depicts. Each character is a sincere and authentic reflection in the emotional world of every human being. My works are not only the expression of Tanya Del Bello but also a “freeze image” of current society. In contrast to the Geraldine project, however, I also felt the need to undertake new artistic paths together with other projects therefore on the site you will find what at the moment “speaks a little bit more than me”, in addition to the various evolutions, always in the artistic field.
The objective is to share and “give”, if possible, a bit of emotion and “lightness”, accepting “diversity”.
So welcome and “have a wonderful journey”!
