Angela Ongaro is an Italian artist.
She is a nature lover and very attentive to detail in each of her artworks, she often studies her subjects from life. This, many times, led her to spend hours still waiting for the right moment to portray an animal or a landscape. Being of a curious nature, she often likes to change: she goes from portraying people to painting landscapes, to drawing exotic and non-exotic animals. She also varies the techniques used to create her artworks, ranging from monochromatic pencil to soft pastels and oil painting.
“I enclose moments of beauty in artworks”
Since 2018 she does private lessons and drawing courses of various levels in the Bergamo area (Italy).
She exhibited in Italy and abroad. She has participated in various international competitions, winning the second prize at the “Golden Turtle Art Contest 2018” in Russia, category “Graphic art. The Portrait of the Animal”.
She was born in 1990, originally from Gandino. She graduated to L.A.S. High School of Art in Bergamo and afterwards she graduated with honors in Restoration to L.A.B.A. Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia in 2013. She is a student of the painter Pierino da Treviolo, who is specialized in oil paintings and pictorial realism. She is the granddaughter of the painter Pino da Gandino, who was a student of the same master as well. The aim of her non-stop apprenticeship is the deepening of oil painting and etching techniques.
Prizes
“Golden Turtle Art Contest”, Mosca, RU – 2° PRIZE – category “Graphic art. The Portrait of the Animal”, with the artwork “Mirror of the soul”
Exhibition and contest
“Sketch for Survival”, traveling exhibition, UK.
Competition “Be Natural/Be Wild”, Spazio Cultura della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Biella, IT
“Sketch for Survival”, traveling exhibition, UK. Competition “Golden Turtle Art Contest”, Mosca, RU
Collective exhibition “Artists4Whale”, Museo Galata, Genova, IT
Competition “Golden Turtle Art Contest”, Mosca, RU – 2° PRIZE – category “Graphic art. The Portrait of the Animal”, with the artwork “Mirror of the soul”
Collective exhibition “Artists4Whale”, Forte S. Tecla, Sanremo, IT
Competition “David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year”, Mall Galleries, Londra, UK
Collective exhibition “Artists4Elephant”, Museo Toni Benetton, Mogliano Veneto, IT
Solo exhibition “Sguardi piumati – tra arte e natura”, Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali ‘Enrico Caffi’, Bergamo, IT
Collective exhibition “Artists4Rhino”, Castello di Vigevano, Vigevano, IT
Competition “David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year”, Mall Galleries, Londra, UK