Giacomo Verdura is a contemporary painter living and working in Bedfordshire
His work centres on the fusion of identity and hyper-fixation, threading personal memories, self-observation, and a curated archive of documented wild animals into visuals that reflect his own internal monologue.
He paints with soft, haze-like brushstrokes accented by bright, contrasting glints of colour to create shimmering streams of light. Through this approach, he manipulates the way the subject matter is perceived—transforming something sinister into something beautiful or innocent, or recasting power and strength in an ethereal light.
“I often proactively search for different references that I can collage together and then think or sketch out the best way to make them cohabitate. How can I change this reference of a tarantula and bring out the softness that I’m envisioning”