'Midsummer' by Salvatore Fiorello
'Midsummer'
20 x 15 cm
Oil on Paper
2025
£400
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Salvatore (b.1976) is a painter based in Hackney, East London. He was born in Cardiff, Wales, to an Italian father and British mother. After spending his early childhood in the Canary Islands and the Caribbean, he returned to the UK in the mid 1980s. He completed his BA in Birmingham in 1998 and MA in painting at the Royal College of Art in 2000. His first solo show 'Small Hours' was held at Blue Shop Gallery in 2024. Salvatore’s work explores peripheries within the landscape, reoccurring motifs such as fences, trees/foliage and windows act as both boundaries and portals, offering suggestions of what might be happening beyond the frame or behind what is visible. The viewer’s gaze is restricted somehow, allowing only a slice of the whole to be revealed. Although painted on a small scale, the scenes transmit potentially cinematic or filmic portrayals of space and time. Functioning as in-between states, these everyday scenes and places, often nocturnal, simultaneously evoke both a sense of ambiguity and familiarity. Despite the connections to real physical places, the paintings ultimately explore the human condition, contemplation, memory and the subconscious.
'Midsummer'
20 x 15 cm
Oil on Paper
2025
£400
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Salvatore (b.1976) is a painter based in Hackney, East London. He was born in Cardiff, Wales, to an Italian father and British mother. After spending his early childhood in the Canary Islands and the Caribbean, he returned to the UK in the mid 1980s. He completed his BA in Birmingham in 1998 and MA in painting at the Royal College of Art in 2000. His first solo show 'Small Hours' was held at Blue Shop Gallery in 2024. Salvatore’s work explores peripheries within the landscape, reoccurring motifs such as fences, trees/foliage and windows act as both boundaries and portals, offering suggestions of what might be happening beyond the frame or behind what is visible. The viewer’s gaze is restricted somehow, allowing only a slice of the whole to be revealed. Although painted on a small scale, the scenes transmit potentially cinematic or filmic portrayals of space and time. Functioning as in-between states, these everyday scenes and places, often nocturnal, simultaneously evoke both a sense of ambiguity and familiarity. Despite the connections to real physical places, the paintings ultimately explore the human condition, contemplation, memory and the subconscious.
'Midsummer'
20 x 15 cm
Oil on Paper
2025
£400
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Salvatore (b.1976) is a painter based in Hackney, East London. He was born in Cardiff, Wales, to an Italian father and British mother. After spending his early childhood in the Canary Islands and the Caribbean, he returned to the UK in the mid 1980s. He completed his BA in Birmingham in 1998 and MA in painting at the Royal College of Art in 2000. His first solo show 'Small Hours' was held at Blue Shop Gallery in 2024. Salvatore’s work explores peripheries within the landscape, reoccurring motifs such as fences, trees/foliage and windows act as both boundaries and portals, offering suggestions of what might be happening beyond the frame or behind what is visible. The viewer’s gaze is restricted somehow, allowing only a slice of the whole to be revealed. Although painted on a small scale, the scenes transmit potentially cinematic or filmic portrayals of space and time. Functioning as in-between states, these everyday scenes and places, often nocturnal, simultaneously evoke both a sense of ambiguity and familiarity. Despite the connections to real physical places, the paintings ultimately explore the human condition, contemplation, memory and the subconscious.