Luca Marchiori is an Anglo-Italian artist working in oil, watercolour, pastel, and graphite. Based in Italy, his work is deeply shaped by the country’s rich cultural and artistic heritage — from ancient Rome to the Renaissance, from sacred imagery to the quiet drama of academic drawing.

Luca’s practice is primarily figurative, focusing on the male form as a vessel of mythology, emotion, and interiority. Influenced by artists such as Caravaggio, John Singer Sargent, Carolus Duran, Lucian Freud, and John Craxton, his work often weaves realism with traces of magic realism — images that appear grounded in the real, but whisper of something imagined.

Catholicism, poetry, and visual memory run like threads through his work. Each piece is a deliberate act of making — a resistance to a world saturated with throwaway images. Whether sparked by a line of verse or a compelling reference photo, Luca creates images that are crafted to be lingered over.

Mostly self-taught, he has also studied under Gonzalo Orquin and Nastasya Voskoboynikova. As Shakespeare wrote, “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact.” Luca Marchiori’s art, too, belongs to that world.