Italian born artist Marco Crivello painter of contemporary landscape paintings and seascapes lives and works in the English town of Lewes East Sussex set in the heart of the South Downs and near the coast and Brighton. His working method is studio based as opposed to plein air yet takes inspiration from the evocative romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich Whistler and Turner whilst mindful of the modernist legacy left by American abstract expressionists Rothko and Newman. 2005 saw his work at the affordable art fair New York, whilst he is a regular at the London Art Fair Art London and Glasgow art fair. His work is distinguished by an innovative use of gold and silver leaf. The art critic Julian Bell has called him ‘a masterly technician’ whose ‘ pictures would sit happily in the most minimalist of interiors’ Presently represented by four square fine arts he regularly works to commission for architects and leading interior designers such as Fox Linton.