Biography

Linda Barnini (Italy, 1985) is an artist who lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia.

 

She trained in Fine Arts at the Liceo Artistico P. Aldi in Grosseto (Italy) and studied Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy). She worked at architecture firms in Milan, Germany, and Spain.

 

In 2016 she came to Colombia to continue her career as an architect. During those years, away from professional artistic practice, she worked alongside her mother, also an artist, in her painting studio.

 

In 2026 she opened her own studio, where she began her pictorial research by depicting tropical flora and vernacular architecture (as in her foundational work Thatched House with Banana Trees), before going on to develop an abstract body of work based on the observation of nature. From architecture she retains an attention to structure and geometry, which today organize her painting.

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Artist Statement

When I arrived in Colombia, the lushness of the tropical flora struck me: the abundance of forms, the precision of their geometry, the intensity and contrast of their colors. Since then, through painting, I have been investigating the geometry, composition, and chromatic qualities of flowers and plants.

 

Behind this research lies a question: what is the reality we perceive? I try to decode it by reducing forms and colors to their most basic and primary terms—geometry and color—and to the emotion they evoke in the brain of whoever observes them. For me, this practice is a path toward the expansion of consciousness, a way of seeking the vibration that lies behind matter.

 

Each work goes through three stages: an initial figurative study, an intermediate abstraction in which the plant is still recognizable, and a final abstraction on canvas, which is the true work of my practice. The palette comes from the plant observed: its colors become my primary palette. Through my works I want to evoke the perceptual experience of color and form, and to give back the emotion produced by the direct observation of nature when it is carried out with attention and presence.

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