"Photography was my first experience practicing with images taken from nature," says Brazilian painter Vicente Russo. Influenced by nineteenth-century French painting, Russo's artistic growth also stems from his years living among the vivid color and light of South America. The beauty of Nature is always his subject, and whether he's painting the sea awash in sunlight or a clearing in a forest, his meticulous brushwork has both the intense scrutiny of pointillism and the spontaneity of impressionism.
There is the tranquility and balance of nature in Russo's works, and he presents a vision of the world as something always in motion, bathed in particles of light or opening up to us as a vista. The spiritual process of creativity, so vital for Russo as an artist, is conveyed to us, and we feel his joy, and his appreciation for the world's beauty as a gift.