Giorgio Trobec

Giorogio Trobec is a easily likeable artist, the very antithesis of the broody dreamer who dribbles paint on a canvas and then expects others to recognise the work of a genius. Trobec is almost child like in his very real enthusiasm. He says that he does not like art that is too realistically representational and this is why he allows his imagination to run wild when he depicts a harbour or a landscape.

His boats have vast prows, stern lines that wriggle their way across the canvas, doors that abut at crazy angles. He uses colour with a gleeful abandon that is all the more effective for its impact. Fauvism is very much a colourist's medium.

Trobec was born in Italy, within the ancient city gates of the renaissance city of Florence of St Valentines day in 1944. His father scootered the family around on a Lambretta and I ask him if this is where he started storing those mental images of Italian seaside villages with deep blue seas, cobbled streets and boats packed to the gills.

"Very much yes," he replies. "I remember them so clearly. Those seaside towns and the countryside of Tuscany. Both have formed a strong basis for my art in recent years. I must add that I don't like to have too clear a memory of those places we visited. I enjoy a vision, perhaps some small detail and then I use my imaginations to tease out the painting. I want to make a painting that says this work is by Giorgio Trobec. They are playful, fun and usually everything is very disproportionate in size."

Trobec is yet another artist who has found a degree of acknowledgement and certainly far more sales throuhg his association with various art galleries. His work is popular because it is well priced, unusual, enormously decorative and yet distinctively different. His movement into the new style has certainly paid dividends.

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