2001

Ottavio di Nola was born at Grottaglie (TA) on the 8th of June in 1943. He lives and works in Milan. Painter of the nature, as he loves to define himself. He has prepared personal shows and participated in numerous national reviews. 

Among the achieved prizes:

1° absolute prize "Epiphany" Gall. Eustachi - Milan

1° prize "impressionism" Mediolanum - Milan

1° absolute prize "Limito" - Milan

2° prize-review "La Cagnola" Milan

Prize "Brera 2000" - Milan

 Reward-representation of the Comune of Salsomaggiore T. etc.

 Its pictures are found in various private collections in Italy and America and in Comunal Pinacotecas.

It has been said about him:

...the atmosphere is rich of expressive power, the light becomes strength and poetic suggestion... a pictorial recitation.

George Balistrocchi (critical journalist "La Provincia")

 Di Nola expresses the light with greater intensity in his painting. It is expressed with intense observation of the subjects and put on the cloth with colours in soft and serene naturalness. The compositions of landscapes and dead natures are spacious and harmonicas, full of a suggestive romanticism.

Livio Bergamaschi (painter)

 ...also drawing the sprout from the classical techniques, he detaches himself from the academic form for freshness and spontaneity.

Enrica Gamalero (journalist)

Humility is the first gift that an artist has to feel in himself. We find this gift alive in the pictures of the good painter Ottavio di Nola; his constant search is praiseworthy, improving more and more the beautiful landscapes and dead natures, preferred by him.

Prof. Caesar Bergonzi