About
Michel Bellici, painter
www.studiobellici.com
mbellici@gmail.com
Michel’s first inspiration was the work of her grandfather, Joseph Rinaldi. Michel would peek at his sketches, notes, and his copy of Grays Anatomy, which she used to teach herself how to draw. This began her love of human anatomy and physiology.
Michel received classical training as a photographer and a painter at both The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the Lorenzo de Medici School of Art in Florence, Italy.
“If I am lucky while I’m painting I will hit a place of complete loss of what to do, it turns into a bit of a frenzy, I’m breaking through something, it hurts, I get irritated, I think it has no where to go, I want to give up, I end up hosing it down, adding paint, removing paint, sanding it down, rubbing the paintings down to see what’s really there. It is a breaking of something inside to let out the real whatever the hell is happening"It’s a great metaphor for the emotional rawness that Bellici brings to her work.She continues; “Sometimes my skin feels like it’s on fire and my head is spinning. When I hit it, I don’t even need to question it. I get into a temper tantrum of happy, I can't live without that"
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