Carlo Romiti was born in 1953 in Castelfiorentino, in the province of Florence. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. Since 1987, he has directed the Theatre Workshop at the Centro Arti Visive in the Municipality of Certaldo. He also collaborated with a research group in the Faculty of Education at the University of Florence to produce teaching materials, and has led painting technique courses for the Educational Section of the Uffizi Galleries as well as at the Prehistoric Museum of Florence. Romiti’s painting research focuses on the natural earth pigments of the region where he lives, a distinctive feature of his work. For years he has collected these soils himself, scraping them from riverbanks by hand. He then grinds them in stone mortars and mixes them with water, egg, various binders or even linseed oil. In his practice, the act of gathering earth marks the true beginning of each painting. Sometimes the color itself inspires the subject, so that the work unfolds in a dialogue between pigment and image.