by Sister Maria Gloria Riva

Lara Leonardi's paintings are a kaleidoscope of color. Layers of color with an abundance of light similar to the paintings of Gauguin, but boasting total fidelity to the subject of the portrait and respect for form. A unique blend of realism and abstract expressionism.

It is not easy for a contemporary artist - in a climate and landscape dominated by intellectual abstract art - to propose a style anchored in the desires of the Creator, yet, at the same time, embodying an original look for modern art.

by Giuliana Matthieu

Faces that explode with color, colors that eat the canvas and invade the environment, saturated to the point that you are not able to distinguish objects and external contours, while watching everything break down into the fullness of triumphant red, intense blue, saturated yellow and nothing looks the same to you any longer, the way they did before you knew her.

by Roberto Filippetti

What happens when you stand in front of the faces painted by Lara Leonardi? You just “stand”. You stand. It may surprise you that you cannot just run off from painting to painting in a rush.

by Mariella Carlotti

Entering the room where Lara Leonardi paints is a bit like stepping into her life, like looking over the chasm of her Soul. Or at least it was for me, on a hot early summer afternoon.

by Lucia Satta

It takes time to look at Lara Leonardi's paintings because there are traces of her history in each one of them.
I was privileged to see the rebirth of the artistic talent of Lara,

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