BIOGRAPHY
Jomay is based in Florence. She is devoted to painting and fascinated by Italian Art, in 2016 she decided to realise her dream of being a professional artist and in Medici Florence, homeland and cradle of the Italian Renaissance, she studied visual arts painting at Florence Classical Art Academy and LABA Firenze where she studied perspective, achieving important pictorial results. In her painting she is strongly influenced by the late 19th century French Impressionism of Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In her exploration of impressionism she is attracted by the contrasts of light and shadow by the strong and vivid colours that fix the painters’ sensations on the canvas. She loves their quick brushstrokes and their preference for painting “en plein air”. However, her painting is more in line with Neo-Impressionism in terms of compositional and chromatic order and preparation of work and painting indoors in her studio. Jomay is also very interested in the correlation between color and shape. She prefers vibrant color because it gives her a sense of freshness, joy and brightness and she is strongly convinced that there is relationship between color and mood that is also subject to external factors as well as our five senses.
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Jomay was graduated with second hon. in B.Sc. Economics and Management at University of London. Then she was graduated with score 106/110 in Level I (Bachelor degree) at LABA Firenze. She has participated numerous exhibitions, art fair, Biennale in a nationwide level in Italy – Florence, Milan, Rome, Venice, Genova and Turin etc. and Hong Kong, Brussels, London, Paris, Barcelona and Miami, LA, NY, Washington in USA. She has won numerous awards, such as 5° Premio Internazionale Michelangelo il Genio d’Italia, Premio Internazionale d’Arte MEDUSA, International Prize Botticelli, Trofeo Artista dell’Anno 2024 and Grand Master of art Giotto. She participated and won numerous competitions: she won Third Prize at “Nel Segno di Caravaggio”; First Prize at “La Rassegna Internazionale d’Arte “50 Per Disney”; Second Prize at “La Magia del Natale in Ogni Tempo”, Second Prize at “Amore è…”. Her works have been received critique from a number of renowned art critic, such as Vittorio Sgarbi, Angelo Crespi etc. Her artworks have been published in a number of Italian art catalogues: Catalogo dell’Arte Moderna, Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea, Porto Franco da Vittorio Sgarbi, 80 Proposte d’investimento per il Collezionista da Angelo Crespi and Artisti 23 etc. A critic described Jomay as “The Frida Kahlo of the Third Millenium”. A great prestigious recognition from Dario Nardella, Mayor of Florence for affirmation of her work.
STATEMENT
Art is Jomay’s passion and it is a channel for her to express her subconscious emotion and sentiment. She opts for using the vibrant colour on her artworks. Somehow she likes to challenge herself and also wants to achieve the pictorial effect that appears in her mind, so she explores different media; such as gold/metal leaf, air brush, alcohol ink and spray paint to achieve the pictorial effect.
