RAFFAELLA  USAI

Raffaella Usai is a realistic painter who unites technical precision with spiritual depth. In her religious paintings, light becomes a prayer: the faces of saints, angels, and sacred figures emerge from the canvas as living presences, filled with compassion and mystery. Each work is an intimate dialogue between matter and soul, between what cannot be seen and what can only be felt.

Alongside her sacred works, Raffaella also creates realistic portraits born from deep listening to the person she portrays. In her paintings, resemblance is not merely physical but spiritual: every gaze holds a story, an emotion, a fragment of soul, destined to transcend time and touch eternity.

Born in Cagliari, Raffaella carries within her the constant call of the Sardinian sea, a symbol of her freedom and inner strength. Even when she paints her Betta Fish, elegant fighting fish with vibrant colors, that same energy resurfaces: a vitality that speaks of determination, beauty, and indomitable spirit. Though not sea creatures, these Betta Fish represent for her the same vital tension that moves the waves and stirs the human soul, the silent struggle for light, for life.

Thus, in her paintings, the sacred and the natural worlds merge. Saints and fish, faces and waters, stillness and movement become different expressions of a single quest: to give visible form to the invisible, to those divine details that remind us that in every battle of the soul, as in every breath of the sea, dwells a spark of grace.

NATUZZA  EVOLO

In esposizione presso il Santuario Cuore Immacolato di Maria
Rifugio delle Anime, Paravati, VV