About Cristina Vercesi

Cristina Vercesi is an Italian-born artist living and working in London. In 2017, she began formal training in the traditional atelier method at London Fine Art Studios, where she now teaches.

While grounded in this classical visual grammar, her work moves beyond academic realism toward a more narrative and psychologically driven form of painting. Early influences from Italian movements such as Scapigliatura and Verismo have gradually evolved into an interest in symbolic imagery, atmospheric colour, and the inner life of images.

Inspired also by the poetic sensibility of the Tonalists and informed by ideas from Jungian psychology, her paintings explore how colour, mood, and symbolism can transform ordinary moments into spaces of reflection and wonder.

Cristina has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Portrait Painters, the Chelsea Art Society, the Society of Women Artists, the Royal Society of British Artists, and the Women in Art Fair, and is a de Laszlo Scholar.

She is currently developing a new body of work exploring colour as an emotional language and the symbolic potential of figurative imagery.