It has been several years now Alessia Griglio approached the hunting world, for the first time I met her at the Exa in Brescia in 2010 with a small space where she exhibited her works dedicated to hunting and the mountains, as well as a canvas with a splendid buffalo, positioned at the entrance of the stand, which seemed to act as a bodyguard to the young artist. From that moment her artistic production has moved almost exclusively towards the hunting world, which she has been able to appreciate in addition to the quality of the paintings, that feeling that the animals she creates express, to the attentive observer they transmit all those sensations and emotions typical of the animal world and even more so than game. The love for the mountains, as a good Piedmontese, can be found in each of his collections, where snow, roe deer, chamois and deer are never lacking, over the years thanks to the great passion for travel and the collaboration with the Safari Club International has added an important collection of paintings dedicated to the black continent, with a predilection for the mythicals Big five, elephants, lions and leopards express all their charm and aggression thanks to the skilful use of shadows. She was soon noticed at Beretta with whom she produced the catalog in 2011 and the calendar in 2012, a collaboration that gave her great visibility also at an international level and contributed to her success. In addition to Beretta, you have over the years entered into agreements with Swarovski Optik and other companies. Currently she regularly participates in the American Conventions from the Safari Club, at the Salzburg hunting fair, as well as numerous other exhibitions around Europe and the world and, from this year, she has also returned to Italian fairs by participating in the HIT of Vicenza.
Now Alessia is considered one of the most important Italian wildlife artists, her particular technique makes her one of a kind, always very attentive to detail and lights, indispensable factors for those who dedicate themselves to pencil and charcoal preferring the shades of gray to the shades of color. His artistic career began at an early age when, thanks to his parents' passion for travel, he was able to deal with different cultures and worlds. This allowed her to admire all the nuances of the world and nature, appreciating the details and creating an important cultural background that we find in all her works. The studies were also dedicated to an artistic path concluded with a degree in Restoration and Conservation of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, hence several collaborations with the world of cultural heritage without ever abandoning the great passion for drawing and painting.
His works are exhibited in the homes of the greatest hunters in the world, who in addition to animal paintings, often require portraits of themselves engaged in hunting or of their dogs caught in the magical moments of stopping or retrieving.
After a few years I had the opportunity to meet her again on the occasion of HIT in that of Vicenza, where she exhibited an important selection of her works, including a large crouching and peaceful lion that even in this position communicated all its royalty, an old and imposing elephant with some zebras in the background it represents the dream of every hunter of Africa. A fascinating triptych of zebras dedicated to watering and a close-up of a leopard completed the works dedicated to the black continent. The corner reserved for chamois is beautiful, an animal that combines perfectly with the black and white technique, then again dogs and portraits of hunters, all in an elegant stand where Alessia, together with her mother, patiently welcomed and entertained visitors. of the fair. For Alessia, painting is essentially a great love to which he dedicates every free moment, when we ask him about his atelier, with a smile he tells us that there is no atelier she paints at home, among the children, on the floor or on the kitchen table, in the mountains and wherever it happens. Always smiling and nice, also active on social networks and on the internet, anyone wishing to learn more about her story and contact her can go to www.alessiagriglio.com, face book or instagram looking for alessiagriglio.