Cetta Di Lieto completed a degree in Ceramics at Loughborough University and now lives in Gloucestershire where she has her painting and ceramic studio. Last year she took part in the year long Professional Landscape program at the Newlyn School of Art and now spends some of her year painting and drawing on the West Penwith Peninsula.

Cetta has exhibited her paintings and ceramics in Italy and throughout the UK.

‘Cetta Di Lieto is drawn to overlooked spaces. Indications of Industry within the landscape visually interest her pylons, buildings, and telephone wires provide lines and negative space which bisect the landscape. These structures allow her to explore the formal qualities of painting, enjoying the balance and shapes they create. Di Lieto says, ‘the landscape itself is too chaotic; these verticals and horizontals are anchors.’ This simplification of form creates a taut quietness. There is tension between the manmade and the natural, firm line and soft colour, the smoothness of surface and the history of layer. It’s as if her pieces are depicting a stillness amongst movement: the calm in the middle of the storm.’

Kate Reeves-Edwards of Cultural Capital Arts