Luciana Riva was born in Noceto (PR) and lives and works in Parma. She attended the Isituto d'Arte P.Toschi in Parma and taught Art classes in the local middle-school. Riva specializes in poetic paintings of great impact: her subjects are wheat fields, poppy-strewn lawns, luxuriant ditch-edges where vegetation, flowers, leaves and the finer grass- blades are each depicted stem by stem, in great particular, though without any mawkish intention to it with surprisingly fresh and clear strokes. Riva also holds the painting's perspective, harmonious composition and delicate chromatism in due consideration and manages thus to assemble works that certainly draw their inspiration from the 19th century Parmese tradition and yet transcend it, moving towards a more contemporary objectivity which witnesses the artist's technical skills as well as her poetic vein that finds its expression in the gentleness of her compositions and the mildness of her yellows and greens, sprinkled with red poppies.