George Scicluna.

Gozitan artist and painter George Scicluna was born in Victoria Gozo, Malta in 1966. He studied graphic design and then he attended art courses at the Accademia di Belli Arti in Perugia, Italy. George Scicluna has won first prize in various art competitions and he has so far organized five personal exhibitions. Some of his paintings were also exhibited in many collective exhibitions.

In April 2006 George Scicluna held a joint exhibition in Glasgow, Scotland, with the world renowned famous Scottish artist Peter Howson.

During this short interview by Anton F. Attard, on a video clip, the painter George Scicluna, is going to exhibit some of his collection of vivid and at times disturbing paintings at his own studio. This talented Gozitan artist has been painting since he was very young at the age of seven.

While doing the paintings, which are a mixture of acrylics and oils, he never dreams of an exhibition but just wants to portray the inner conflict that he has felt within himself throughout the years. Most of his paintings represent how he has been feeling at each stage of his life to date. They are autobiographical but at the same time bring out feelings that we all have.

The paintings which will be featured in this video clip are about Gozo’s scenery. However, he has also managed to paint some of the intricate narrow streets of the centre of Victoria, where he grew up, and brings to life with stunning likeness various figures sitting on their doorsteps. Other paintings are of different styles. At one point he said that one painting that started off as a landscape of Marsalforn somehow ended up as an award-winning abstract, completely unrecognizable from its original self.

The painter himself does not feel he knows how to paint, but just starts work on something and than hopes for the best.

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