Studio Aurora - Chicago, in its commission work, uses a process of applying pure translucent painted color in 3 or more layers of wash-glazes with brushes.

• Materials > The choice of materials for this process are paints of all natural components such as - beeswax, casein (milk protein), tree resins, essential plant oils. Pigment choice can range from earth, mineral, semi-precious stone such as jaspar or genuine lapis lazuli, or even high-quality pure plant pigments. High quality plant pigments are also an option. The paints are produced through "soft chemistry" technology and imported from Germany and are the world's highest quality professional grade Aglaia^® brand paints. It should be strongly emphasized how significant these living paints are for the living designs of Lazure painting.
• The focus of Lazure Painting is to create visually qualitative, richly modulated tonalities on architectural surfaces. Even more importantly though, Lazure Painting aims to qualitatively transform architectural space directly affected by those surfaces and to aesthetically harmonize the space to create luminous color moods or atmospheres. Here the "secret" is knowing utilization of the sources of light - either natural or artificial, which reflect off the white or light colored wall surfaces lying behind the applied color. This interaction of directed and reflected light with transparently painted surfaces creates a luminous radiant coloration filling the space... enriching, enlivening and effectively supporting of the function of the space. Walls breathe color... space breaths color... beautiful color harmonizes architectural surface, form and space to serve function. Aesthetically enhancing human sensibilities of body, soul and spirit both for individual and in social interaction...Lazure ensouls architecture.
• Lazure painting is designed to effect the whole human organism in a wholesome and liberating way. We enliven architectural surface and space through the emancipating aspects of translucent color which affects human breathing. The physio/psychological impact of this revolutionary method will expand the way we utilize color in architecture. In a time when anxiety and stress impose upon us, Lazure has come of age.
• The origins of Lazure painting reach back to the universal figure Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) . Steiner's spiritual -scientific research as the basis of Anthroposophy, continues to have practical impact globally to this day.

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John Stolfo Artist

Lazure Interiors/Fine Art Painting, Sculpture and
Graphic Design

Color in translucency, rhythmical-gestural movement and a wide, dynamic range of light-dark contrast are the various elements which I seek to synthesize in my compositional paintings. This is the case in both small - to large canvas work and in interior wall mural work where space usage and light source play important roles.

This compositional painting process I call "organic transformative" ... beginning with the first brush strokes - placing gestural color on the surface. I am then cultivating or nurturing, through improvisational play...a "growing-towards-form". Then, gradually the search leads to an aesthetically satisfying moment which I call "stilled movement".

Through the painterly, visual language, I aim to reveal qualitites of musical or singing color and to inspire the viewer's inate sense for mystery... for transcendent or spiritual realities.

Such experiences come about through the outer sensory (tangible). They are in this sense "clothed" or "veiled" within the substances of pigment and paint medium, within the physical 2-dimensional surface and the 3-dimensional space in which the viewer stands and moves.

I have recently discovered a new love in doing sculpture. The same creative process of free improvisation applies here. Throughout the years I have been commissioned to do graphic work for various clients such as Alchymia Theatre in Chicago, Midwest Eurythmy Group, Chicago Waldorf School and The Anthroposophical Society in America. Samples of this graphics work can be provided upon request. Fine art canvas paintings and sculpture can be viewed here.

Mural detail - Trattoria Caterina, Chicago - more murals

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You may contact John Stolfo by phone at 312-217-1768, or email him at johnstolfo@aol.com

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Biography

Born 1950 in Detroit, Michigan, John Stolfo is a painter of canvases, murals, whole interiors and a sculptor as well as a performing eurythmist. A world traveler, he lived in Sweden from 1980-93 where among other accomplishments he was an art gallery owner/director . He is founder/owner of Studio Aurora in Chicago.

Pursuing his clearly personal and spiritual path John has various credentials in the artistic and spiritual-scientific realms. A 25 year student of Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy and a certified Waldorf teacher, John nourishes his artwork with this rich personal history.

Through Studio Aurora - Chicago he accepts commissions and offers workshops. Through his home-base Studio Aurora in the Fine Arts Building, he provides introductory classes for beginners in painting and sculpture and exhibits his own painting and sculptures on-going. Studio visits are welcome, by arrangement please.