Flavia Brollo was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1972 from a Brazilian/Italian background and she currently lives and works in São Paulo. She also lived and worked in London for 3 years where she got her MBA at Westminster University. She is a well-succeeded businesswoman who has been painting successfully for the last ten years.

Flavia Brollo’s paintings show up the foundations of language and poetic expression, she technically mastered the use of enamel and takes advantage with exceptional expertise of the proper nature of this amazing material, allowing an autonomous dialogue from the color-to-color and paint-to-surface relation. Her colors are intense—a quality of industrial paints—though sometimes she chooses the most calm tones. Great artists like Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock and Claudio Tozzi did make frequent use of industrial products.

Flavia Brollo considers herself a self-taught artist, in the sense of not having graduated in Fine Arts. With a few art courses, but long experience, let alone being married to an artist for the last fourteen years—and her father-in-law is an art dealer—she takes advantage of her past memories and an incredible inner capacity to mentally organize her paintings beforehand.

Flavia Brollo has borrowed the dripping technique from Pollock and, like the great American painter, she controls the flow of paint until reaching a magic moment when the enamel starts to blend, coming to life leaving its own mark, so to speak.

Brollo’s work demands an enormous amount of concentration since enamel is a tricky material to work with. It takes almost ten hours of non-stop work to finalize a medium canvas and another 2 days to let it dry properly. Her paintings should also be examined carefully from a short distance to appreciate the fine detail and the incredible pattern areas. She only uses water-based enamel, which does not have that characteristic stink, with nonallergic components.