Painter of vivid landscapes, light-filled interiors, picturesque bouquets, still life with fruits and personal objects, garden paths and poppy fields, Emilio is undoubtedly a contemporary artist who continuously describes a dialogue between abstraction and impressionism. The subjects of his paintings are meticulously constructed into elaborate compositions. They are usually developed in the foreground of the image and linked through subtle elements, which may be objects, undefined, colored shapes or patterns, which the desired background.

Emilio designs the subjects of his paintings with clear contours employing lines of contrasting colors. These fine and firm brush strokes abstract the real shapes into new areas of well-balanced graphic structures. The reality of the settings, objects and landscapes offer both interest to the subject to be further graphically manipulated on the canvas, and to the constant source of color and light by which Emilio composes chromatic harmonies with impressionistic echoes.

In his paintings, Emilio combines a sense of clarity, solidity and fluidity. When one analyzes his colors and painting techniques, the artist can be seen as a contemporary impressionist.

Emilio explains that he paints from nature and he feels the explosion of light and color becoming the focus of his painting success. He uses a strong structure of colored ‘building blocks’ already defined in abstracted shapes, in vivid colors, in pure bright and subtle more traditional hues. The brush strokes vary from parallel hatching of solid colors to overlaid flowing and transparent tones. They follow the shapes of the objects and place light and darkness to move the viewer’s eye from the focus point of the painting throughout the rest of the canvas.

The artist works on pre-stretched, pre-primed canvas, beginning with a light drawing in graphite, charcoal or water based paint, slowly building up clear areas of color in acrylic impasto and lastly finishing with oil paint highlights. Surprisingly, Emilio’s work, although it appears simple, is quite analytical being based in logic, structure and calculation, as well as on spontaneity which recognizes and captures the excitement of color, a process which gradually develops over the course of time.

Romanian born, Emilio started his career in art at a very early age. Presently. Emilio resides in Toronto, Canada. For the last ten years he has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Canada and United States following his mixed media, acrylic paints on the canvas or silk. His work is collected internationally by USA, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, and Canada.