Murran Billi

Murran Billi is an Italian painter and tattoo artist from Tuscany whose work is rooted in Florence: he has been painting since 1973, without formal art school training, learning technique from artist friends and working in oil on canvas in a format of 150 by 100 cm. Portraits are built from a photograph and interpreted in a style that mixes realism with a Renaissance-derived sense of light and form.

After years working on skin, Billi moved to canvas and then to stone, two years painting on slabs and combining techniques from fine art, tattooing and sculpture, each piece poised between the primitive and the contemporary. That research became a debut collection at Milan Design Week’s Fuori Salone, with Antolini, alongside portraits of sports figures and LVXlight, the tattoo lamp he created and owns.