Most people run to the kitchen to get a scrubber to wipe out whatever has been spilt on the dining table or any other surface, but not Giulia Bernardelli. She possesses the creative eye to turn this ugly patch into works of art!
Little did this 27-year-old Italian artist, who earned her bachelor’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, realize that her real artistic talents will someday lie in turning spillages into art pieces.
According to Bernardelli, her creativity in turning spills into art comes from spur-of-the-moment imagination and is always unprompted. And she specializes in coffee spills!
For Bernardelli, it all began a year ago, when she accidentally spilt coffee on the table. Instead of running to get a scrubber to wipe it off, she got transfixed seeing the spillage and her mind conjured up all kinds of possibilities that this ugly splotch can be turned into.
It was probably at this moment she decided to become a ‘spill artist’. She reiterates this fact, when she says, “Everything that I needed was around me if I looked carefully. I decided to replace the paintbrush with what nature offered, such as leaves, fruit skins, food. All these elements feature different colours and textures.” The rest, as they say, is history!
