Laura Zuccheri Art

Laura Zuccheri is an Italian realist artist and professional illustrator, born in 1971. She started her career in 1992, as a comics author. In 1993, she started her collaboration with Ken Parker Magazine, which was founded by Giancarlo Berardi and Ivo Malazzi and later, became part of the Sergio Bonelli Editore publishing house. It was during this experience that Laura discovered the works of some of the most important American illustrators of the 1800s and 1900s, among which were Reminghton, Russell, Rockwell, Layendecker, Sargent and Wyeth, who sparked her interest in painting. Among the Russian masters, her attention was caught by Repin, Shishkin, Serov, Aivazovsky and Kramskoi, whereas her European inspirations were Larsoon, Sorolla, and Boldini, among others. Devoted mainly to painting landscapes, Zuccheri is now experimenting with portraiture. Her painting process is characterized by drawing an initial sketch in plein air, which is later transported and developed on canvas.