The Soul in the Furrows of Colour
Sara Quida was born in 1970 in the Gulf of Orosei, Sardinia. Her path has been shaped by a restless temperament and an innate curiosity that led her from an early age to explore dance, photography and creative writing. After a period in public service and profound family experiences, in 1999 she made a radical choice of freedom: she left the island and moved to Vasto, Abruzzo, following an inner search that would ultimately find its voice in art.
A self-taught painter since 2009, her artistic development accelerated through frequent travel across Europe and international residencies. Her encounter with Street Art and her collaboration on the “Hotel 128” project at Street Art City in France in 2017 marked a shift towards a bolder and more self-aware painting practice. Today Quida exhibits in physical and virtual shows, leads abstract-painting workshops and is represented in private collections in Italy and abroad.
Poetics and Vision
Sara Quida’s art is an act of resilience. For the artist, the canvas is a “place of shipwreck”: a space where intense emotions—from the pain of loss to the joy of rebirth—take visible form. Her research moves within informal abstraction, where the painting does not represent the external world but becomes an immediate transcription of lived experience. Each work is a fragment of the soul, a chromatic diary inviting the viewer to lose and rediscover themselves.
Technique and Style
Quida’s technique is based on layering and subtraction, with a strong material component.
- Experimenting with supports: she moves freely between canvas and paper, the latter becoming central to the successful Graffi d’Amore series, where oil creates depth and texture.
- Gesture and ink: in more recent series such as Dopo la tempesta, oil gives way to acrylic ink. The gesture becomes more fluid and immediate, using transparency to express renewed lightness after periods of crisis.
- Marks and incisions: the “scratch” is a distinctive feature of her language—furrows carved into colour that symbolise life’s scars, transformed through art into textures of beauty.
