ABOUT

Born in Fondachelli‑Fantina (ME) on 9 December 1957, he lived for long periods between Milan and India, where he spent more than thirty years as a spiritual seeker. Initiated in many paths of yoga — Taoism-Zen,Tantra (Pune, Osho), Samkhya (Udasin-Vrindavan), Kriya (Babaji Mahavatar (Maharashtra), Siva Siddhanta (Tamil Nadu) and Jnana (H.W.L. Poonja) — he also retains his Christian baptism and a deep love for Jesus, Mary and Saint Francis.

His contemplative practice, which included meditation beneath the tree where the Buddha attained nirvāṇa, merges with an aesthetic sensibility that embraces Sufi mystics, Lao‑tzu and Bashō. Painting for him is a means of revelation: he uses phrases and quotations on canvas to guide the viewer toward philosophical detachment, compassion and kindness. Art is a path; his work is visual meditation.

Alongside painting, he cultivates mystical prose poetry, translations and publishing. His aesthetic interests include the classics and, among contemporary artists, Gerhard Richter and Julian Schnabel.

To initiates he is Nandalala or Lalla; to yogis he is Prem Sandesh Das; in Italy he is Domenico Delia. His work proposes a journey from man to God and, from God, to the Nameless Source — an invitation to inner transformation through images that speak to the heart.