Giorgia Bel (b. 1990) is a self-taught artist who began painting in 2015 during a period of illness. What began as a means of coping soon evolved into an enduring passion.

Bel’s practice is grounded in memory, imagination, and a tender, melancholic connection to place, person, and experience. Rendered in milky, dirtied-down colour and suffused with the shifting tones of dawn and dusk, her works evoke drenched landscapes alive with vitality. Skeletal trees emerge through Rothko-like washes, as the known and imagined dissolve into one another.

Her portraits explore intimacy, memory, and the emotional residue of lived experience. Rather than seeking to simply record likeness, Bel uses the figure as a vessel for remembrance and feeling, allowing bodies to emerge from hazy, dream-like fields of colour. The figures often inhabit a space between the familiar and imagined, evoking loved ones, fragments of memory, dream-time, and the quiet experiences of everyday life. In this way, her portraits become less about a singular moment and more about the shifting nature of how we remember and hold the people, places, and experiences that shape us. Underpinning Bel’s practice is a belief in art as medicine—a means of processing, preserving, and returning to the emotional landscapes of our lives.