Gisela Vacca (born in 1960) discovered the atmosphere and subjective beauty of visual art at a very young age. She visited museums and galleries with her father, and her interest, or rather passion, for this creative form of expression developed very quickly. During her training at the Academy of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Malmésry, she was praised for her subtle drawing talent. Between 1980 and 1986, she lived in Italy, and during this period her maturity evolved into a sublime realism. Back in Belgium, where she feels at home, she sought her own way to depict her dream world in pictures. Alert and assertive in a world where people and nature take centre stage, she paints with a passionate brush, adding colour and depth to water features and landscapes. She idealises the play of fish or animals as a dream image, of snapshots with subtle colour shades in motion or stillness.Gisela Vacca cannot really be pigeonholed into a particular style or movement. She herself invariably says that her work is a “fusion” between realism and magical realism. The underwater world as the main theme in her current work can best be assessed in this way, because the world she creates is a world of colour and light and complete silence. Light, movement, life and mystery are all elements that are predominant in her paintings.Her latest paintings are therefore often used in Feng Shui interiors, where tranquillity, water, koi and light play an important role.Gisela Vacca has conquered not only Europe but also Japan.The Japanese hold this subtle artist in very high regard. Not only because Japanese koi carp often feature as a theme in her paintings, but above all because they consider her work to be of exceptional quality.Gisela has thus become an artist who, for the Japanese community in Belgium, but also for the Japanese themselves, promotes Japanese culture and way of life to the Western continents and is therefore cherished and honoured by them, a veneration that few European artists have enjoyed to date...