Italian-born artist Karenina Fabrizzi draws on the traditional fairytale illustration to create antique-inspired works of art. Her paintings combine heirloom portraiture with classical floral detail, merging the ordinary with the fantastic, for a rich, dreamlike aesthetic.
In her depiction of organic growth, Fabrizzi foregrounds our fragile connection to roots and memories, visualising the subconscious through images of blossoming flowers and budding plants. Yet, like all great fairytales, Fabrizzi’s paintings are not without their dark side: a plaintive song seems to haunt each work, humming in the delicate layers of graphite, oil, and ink, that Fabrizzi painstakingly builds up to achieve the ethereal beauty of times past.
