Paolo Ferroni was born in 1953 in Rome, where he lives and works.

From childhood, he showed a keen interest in drawing, undoubtedly stimulated by his mother Nelda, a talented painter of the Impressionist school.

In 1967, he enrolled at the Art School on Via Ripetta, under the guidance of talented teachers and artists: set designer Gaetano Castelli, painters Franco Piruca and Elena Felici, watercolorist Armocida, and architects Mazzacurati and Caccetta. From 1971, he attended the painting course at the Academy of Fine Arts on Via Ripetta in Rome, taught by Maestro Franco Gentilini, engraver Arnoldo Ciarrocchi, and art historian Antonio del Guercio. He graduated in 1975. During these years, he devoted himself intensely to life studies: models, portraits, people, horses, dark and atmospheric interiors, urban landscapes, and especially trees, which constituted a constant reference.

His painting always begins with the study of reality, taken from life, in the form of sketches, drafts, and finished drawings, both in black and white and color. It begins with the figurative and, through successive phases of schematization, reaches abstraction. The interpretation of reality proceeds according to his cultural and aesthetic sensibility, which, from the art of the late 19th century and the avant-garde, leads to abstract lines and materials.

After several years focusing on abstraction, in 2020/21 the artist devoted himself to plein air painting and directed his research toward the interpreted and sometimes transfigured representation of natural reality, which he imbues with expressive and emotional influences.

His landscape painting, however, is never intended as a furnishing accessory, and one might think the themes are rather familiar: seascapes, cloudy skies, rocky cliffs, trees, but that's not the case! The great theme of "Nature-Arche," deeply felt by the author, is actually extremely current and experienced with the intention of engaging, through his personal idea of ​​"Beauty" (different from the subjective concept of "taste") in Nature and Art, towards issues related to climate and environmental protection.

The trees' sweep against the sky, the constant motion of the clouds, the morphological solidity of the rocks, and the ever-moving forms of the sea hold a profound fascination for him, not so much intellectual as sentimental, not cognitive but emotional: the pure pleasure of capturing the archetypal message of nature according to a sentiment that, ultimately, is still Romantic.

The painting techniques he has adopted over time are traditional, such as oil, watercolor, acrylic, and charcoal pencil, on classic supports such as canvas and cotton paper, sometimes enriched with extraneous materials, especially sand. Lately, he has favored watercolor, which, however, he uses unorthodoxly, but through the application of numerous layers, as if it were oil.

His painting is structured according to the following parameters: compositional organization, relationships between forms, color intensity, and dynamic strokes, harmoniously balanced.

Stylistically, despite having gone through phases of painting based on broad, expansive fields, he favors an intense and analytical use of color and strokes, based on the pursuit of contrast and the dynamic vibration of color and stroke, always governed by a strong compositional balance.

In this most recent period, he has also been significantly oriented toward social themes, particularly the dramatic nature of migrant landings, culminating in a solo exhibition on the theme "Shipwrecks and Castaways," always experienced in their relationship with Nature.

He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions. His most recent solo exhibitions include:

"Suggestions en plein air" - March 2022 at the "Laboratorio" in Trastevere, Rome

"Trees in Villa Ada" - June 2022 - "Centro Maria Lai Acrase" - Rome

"Nature is Painting" - May 2023 - at "Sinergie Solidali" - Rome

"With Your Head in the Clouds" - September 2023 at the "Laboratorio" in Trastevere, Rome

"Art that Includes: Shipwrecks and Castaways" - SOS Racism - Regina Elena Institute, Rome

"Promenade in Villa Ada" - at "Sinergie Solidali" - Rome

"Sea, Wind, and Limestone" - at the Aleph Rome Hotel, Rome

"Migrants" - Festival of Cultures 2024, at the Welcome Center in Rome.

"The Art of Peace" - 2025 - Traveling exhibition promoted by the SOS Racism association.

"The Art of Peace" - 2025 - "Migrants and Gaza" at the Vaccheria dell'Eur