FRANCESCA CIAUDANO. PAINTER AND CERAMIST. ITALY
Everything Touches Everything Else
Paintings and ceramics on interdependence: the invisible ties between humans, animals, earth and the unseen
Made at the foot of the Sibillini, the mountains where a Sibyl was said to live.
the artist
I make art the way some people pray
I’m Francesca Ciaudano, an Italian artist working across painting and ceramics. My work begins in mystical experience and intuition, and moves toward the forces that connect all things: the Earth’s magnetic field that guides migrating birds, particles that remain entangled across distance, the meeting of consciousness and matter.
I live and work at Casa Janna in San Ginesio, the house and creative project I conceived and brought to life in the Marche countryside. Art, food, architecture and hospitality are closely connected in the way I think about creating spaces, and how those spaces shape our experience of being in the world.
Everything I create is part of one ongoing inquiry: how can we learn to perceive the connections that have always been there, and recover ways of knowing that we may have forgotten?
May the invisible flow into the visible.
In turbulent times we are given the chance to transit between worlds. Between the visible and the invisible. A unique opening to the true essence of oneself. As the illusion of separation breaks down, the inside and outside inevitably reflect each other.
F. CIAUDANO
CANCELLED VOICE.
In my art, chance & natural processes are deployed. Rivers of movement on paper shape into abstract form. Despite their abstract nature, I have come to learn how paintings always have a story to tell.
On this piece as the water settled, the pigments took form into the story they were carrying. It was the story of a Mouthless Woman, of words held within, of sounds unsounded.
Explaining art is limiting as the expression is never finished and the images never fixed. Yet the Mouthless Woman was given back a voice to bring her emotions into the conversation.
Latest Work.
HUMANSCAPE. A collection that explores our depths through the language of nature.
