Maria Carmen Salis, known as Carmen Salis, is a painter born in Angera (VA) on July 17, 1967. She currently lives and works in Sardinia. From an early age he showed a marked talent for drawing. He received his first palette and oil paints, a gift from his mother, at the age of 13. Always during her adolescence, she met the Tuscan painter Francesco Colaccichi who, noting her talent for drawing, persuaded her to take up art studies. He attended the “Foiso Fois” Art School in Cagliari, studying the basics of drawing from the painters Franco Meloni and Primo Pantoli, Masters of the Sardinian artistic scene. After his artistic maturity he attended a three-year course in the restoration of paintings. Here you will have the opportunity to stay in close contact with the altarpieces of the Superintendence of Cagliari, to learn about the works of the Sardinian Masters of the 400-500 and deepen the technique of egg tempera. This and oil colors will be the techniques with which he will work on his future paintings. In 1996 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara (known as the international school of sculpture and meeting place of many artists) where his training will follow the teachings of Umberto Buscioni, Omar Galliani, Gabriele Giromella and Giovanna Bombarda, who support her in the study of figurative painting. In 2001 he graduated with honors in Painting and in 2003 he obtained a teaching qualification. Since 2004 he has taught Art and Image. At the same time he continued his pictorial research, participating in numerous exhibitions and awards throughout Italy. Defined by some as “the Painter of silence”, her pictorial research in which dreamlike, surreal and metaphysical come together in a perfect formal balance and intense chromatism, is strongly personal. In his paintings subjects and themes are an expression of an original, elegant and contemporary introspective vision.