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Edoardo Durdin

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Edoardo Durdin (1988), Imaginative Realism.

Growing up in Rome, Edoardo experienced his passion for classical tradition at an early age. This fascination and a sense of home led him back to Italy (Florence) in his late teens to enjoy classical drawing and painting techniques, and he was later on greatly influenced by Russian Master, Alexey Steele.

In his work, he acquires a soul redeeming quality that shows hard, but also more vulnerable, truths. The stories he tells explore interpersonal processes in search of the unseen to push towards greater allegorical compositions. Enriched with narrative symbols, his paintings carry a hidden message which spark the viewer to look for the meaning within the visual language.

He exhibited his first solo show at the age of 19 and has been exhibiting his work
professionally across Europe ever since. As of late, Durdin has been focusing on creating series with a more singular and stronger narrative within two collections at the same time. He is currently working on both a portraiture series called the "Rhyme of Finite Sparks" inspired by the work of Samuel L. Coleridge, and the "Atlantic Nonet" series with a greater sense of the imaginative, based on his own stories of the ocean floor.

In 2014, he spoke on "the Voice on Contemporary Realism" at The Representational Art Conference ( TRAC) in Ventura, California.
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Part-Time Courses:
Introduction to Classical Drawing

Upcoming Workshops:
Plein Air Landscape Painting | 24 - 28 July 2023

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