Nicola Simbari

Using stunning [opinion] colors and favoring brilliant tones, he paints with a palette knife and achieves great depth with this technique.

Simbari was born in Calabria, Italy and this beautiful area greatly impacted his Mediterranean paintings: the blues of the ocean and sky, and the bright hues of the flowers.

Simbari's early works featured scenes from his childhood - gypsies, cafes, fishing villages, and the Italian countryside.

He saw success almost immediately, and shortly after a one-man show in London, he was commissioned to paint murals for the Italian Pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.

His paintings are in collections including the Bank of Tokyo and the Christian Dior Collection in Paris; Italian State Railways in Rome; Liberty Company in London; and Tulsa Bank of Commerce, Cincinnati Fine Arts Department, Exxon Corporation, General Mills Corporation, and Pepsico, in America.