BIOGRAPHY
PAINTINGS
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Nat
Capitanio
Born in Cassino, Italy, in 1954, he immigrated to Canada with his family when
he was 3 years old. At an early age and through high school, he showed an
interest in art, especially drawing. After high school, he decided to concentrate
on art studies and enrolled in the 3 year intensive arts course at Central
Technical School in Toronto. This course stressed art history, illustration,
design, printmaking, ceramics, painting, with an emphasis on life drawing.
Since completing this course, he has consistently been attending life drawing
classes in Toronto, and working with various media and subject matter: figure
drawing, still lifes, landscape, portraiture, in pastel, oils and acrylics.
He has always been fascinated with the beauty of nature. Recently, he has
discovered the Lanark Highlands region, which he finds truly inspiring, and
he has decided to leave the city for the countryside. While he continues his
life studies, he endeavours to concentrate more on interpreting the local
landscape and its beauty. In the past, like many artists, he has worked from
photo references, but with time he found that the best results usually come
from working directly from nature, whether it be the landscape or the human
form. Working this way, the results are always looser and more spontaneous.
For that reason, in addition to his usual studio work, he intends to focus
more on location painting.
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