Of Mice and Men, 120 x 90cm Detail

Fossi’s visual spaces mediate sacred powers of emotional force, both: vulnerable and moving - taking us somewhere where we can find a way to change ourselves – to hear the ‘unsaid’, to see the ‘unseen’, to feel the ‘unknown’. Fossi’s sea is the visual oxygen. Come and breathe.

Julia Svetlichnaja, writer, PhD, University of Westminster

There are things… gaping holes, frailties, fears and mysteries that only the artistic image can instantly fill and transcend. Words cannot express any of such indescribable features. I see the world as a big abstract painting, where we can find a way to change ourselves. To the current debate so-called “Painting is dead” I would say that rumours of the death of painting have been greatly exaggerated. I believe painting can take us to places otherwise unseen and unheard, turning into a vehicle that leads our consciousness into the unknown.

I paint with oil. Like good concrete, oil paint does not suffer transformation whilst drying but keeps the memories of the strokes.
The physical aspect of painting is very important to me: I push, carve, scratch, sculpt my paints with a palette knife, giving directions and meaning to every single stroke. Surely founded by my architectural career, my visual space is constructed from inside. This allows me to create a work that directs and embraces emotions.

The Sea is my mastered subject. It is a mass… but one can go through! And most importantly, its impermanence makes it inherently abstract. It is also a place where I escape; the fantasy of real refuge…

In French mere and mer generate identical sounds. As a mother concept; presents the tension between unconditional love and broken promises. My seascape seems to be seeking reconciliation.

“Painting is dead” some nowadays state; I would say that rumours of the death of painting have been greatly exaggerated. I believe painting can take us to places otherwise unseen and unheard, turning into a vehicle that leads our consciousness into the unknown.