“True art is not just a craft - it’s a form of life, a projection of the soul, through which the artist aspires to get closer to the spirit of the world.” - Catalino

Catalino’s works are built to be experienced physically as much as visually. Constructed from accumulated layers of mineral plaster, earth pigments, and hand-worked lime, each piece possesses genuine physical relief: a surface with depth, weight, and tactile presence that changes as light moves through a room and across the day.

Catalino works with chromatic fields of unusual complexity and restraint. Earth reds, mineral greens, oxidized blues, ochres, lime whites, and deep umbers are layered into compositions that feel luminous, grounded, and materially alive. Colour in his work is never simply decorative: it shapes atmosphere, rhythm, and spatial tension.

This command of material is rooted in Catalino’s formation within the rigorous traditions of post-war Eastern European fresco and architectural conservation, a rare lineage of pre-modern craftsmanship. His early career included large-scale architectural murals across Europe, where he developed a fluency with monumental surface and architectural scale that continues to shape his studio practice. Decades of research and experimentation later led to his development of coloured lime mortar as a complete visual medium, one in which colour exists within the body of the material itself, creating surfaces of exceptional depth and luminosity.

The geometric language of the work draws from fragmented architecture, remembered landscapes, and constructed memory. Their presence transforms interiors not through spectacle, but through atmosphere, material richness, and sustained visual depth.