If you fancy a cursory glance at art that will help you float away, or that takes your mind to utter solace, look no further than the Italian-born contemporary artist Giovanni Leonardo Bassan. The Paris aficionado first emerged from the corners of Thiene, Vicenza, to charm us all with heartfelt craft and soul-tinged hooks. “The arts were somewhat intrinsic to my identity,” he blithely tells me, the moment we hop on Zoom. Employing breezy elements of everyday life and slinky references on that note, he fires the Renaissance movement at point-blank range Bassan conceives paintings with phenomenal skill. “For as long as I can remember, I still recall playing with colours and pencils as a young child,” he says, “which was something that made me happy then, and yet as cheesy as it sounds it never changed.”