"Anna Francesca Gutris possesses the rare gift of one who refuses the evidence of reality.Certainly she is committed to figuration, but she is a painter who avoids the easy path that usually leads to following the footsteps of those historic artists, faithful to the recognition of the image.
Ms. Gutris goes deeply and with originality into the subjects which interest her working with oils and spatula, she never surrenders to an over descriptive rhetoric outline.She manages to be warm,and at the same time, imaginative, in her clear expressionism of the figural embroidery – always well enclosed and concluded – e resolute objectivity. For this painter the hat is an object, a plastic form, one could say, functional as a tiny stage background for other shapes – these could be a lamp, gloves or ornamental garlands.The trunk in its every-day simplicity is elevated to a noble and chromatic presence; the umbrella is form and colour, is an abstract game in ringing tones of red, gentle yellow and sea blue. Anna Francesca Gutris possesses an undoubted talent in mixing the colours to produce the gently toning shades.One perceives this alchemy above all in the wooded corners, where the shade covers the light and the light reveals the trees, light green willows.
Some of her woods have the candour, express the serenity of someone who loves silence, solitude.
She is a painter who has an accurate eye for atmosphere, especially autumnal, when the reds become fire and the yellows speak again of the vitality of nature. Ms.Gutris is, therefore, a poet of the palette with an unerring hand when working with a spatula, a painter who transforms silence into colour."

Paolo Levi

'Reading the biography of Anna Francesca Gutris, one is struck by the variety of her interests in the field of art and the numerous activities she has carried out successfully during recent years, as well as achieving important results, having followed numerous courses relative to her field. She has an energetic and lively personality, as her pictures, above all in recent years, show. In these, the colour emerges forcibly from the light backgrounds, but at the same time and with a clear-cut harmony.
One is struck by the light and shade effects, by the outline of each element in the still-life;these are so vital in their contrasts and evident in their definition and colour combination with exceptionally skilful perspective.
The landscapes are also remarkable, the woods, the meadows running with clear streams, often enlivened by the variegated green of the branches to the sudden clarity of the red leaves, or outlined with intense dark shadows in the foreground which highlight the blazing sun; of great effect in the perspective with a landscape background.
And still glimpses of houses in which the architecture is evident and perfectly proportioned, the colours alive and animated giving the impression of great modernity, or traditional rural buildings of pleasant effect.
There are often beautiful paintings of exploding colour, able to illuminate a pale wall or a shaded room with the vitality of articles of clothing arranged in lively composition, or with small romantic bridges embracing the banks of streams of clear water. In all, an abundant production, particularly skilful and vital.'

Gian Piero Rabuffi

When for the first time I have approached to the painting of Anna Francesca Gutris, I was observing a harbor with the waves in nervousness and I have found identifity myself with these, almost crushed me same by the waves. It has been so that the artist has me curiosity and in one afternoon in autumn I have decided to contact to make her pictorial history to tell me through the images of her works. Naturally I have not been able to do to less less than observe as the artist, that always works to mixed oil to spatula and it never uses the brushes, footsteps from a kind to the other with lightness, or better boldness: a to do loose, easy, flowing. Rural landscapes, harbors, dead natures; a whole series of manifold subjects and drawn back objects sometimes in movement, sometime immovable. I speak more than of rigid immobility, better of quiet, rest. Man is temporarily perhaps the hat leaned on a chair or the suspended coat to the clothes-stand or the unmade boots, by now too used, portraits in the foreground, object and also protagonists of the scene. Simple things that strike because even though drawn back without signs of motion, they don't appear inactive, paralyzed, rigid, but rather to me it seems, in attended. Someone of there to few it will give to take back her and whereas it deals with garments he will wear them. It is not permissible to know to whom belong neither it interests us… I am them the principal actors now, the heroes: here are the shoes by now consumed that has sustained the daily work of someone, the red coat that has favored the vanity and the eccentricity of somebody else the dance tutù hung to the crutch in perhaps attended of the next exhibition.  
 Visit tickets that they tell it long on the actor hidden that we will ever know. All around quiet, serenity, rest… a calm and a peace suggested by the technique but not favored by the color. The style is that of the realism to do descriptive and the atmosphere is peaceful and clear, the technique used meticulous, spiteful, refined at the same time. Opposite the color it is vivacious, exuberant, sometimes impulsive but certainly vital, sure as the hand of the artist it is sure, Anna Francesca Gutris, that passes from a creation to also answering to the demands of the actuality which competed to theme with seriousness, biennial, expo and from last the share to the Cowprade, great show of contemporary art that has invaded with her cows since 1998 the streets of the greatest metropolises of the world (New York, Chicago, Sidney, Tokyo, Paris, Mountain Charles, Bruxelles, etc.) and unwound himselfselves to Milan from April 14 to June 17 th 2007, in which our artist has participated with the work "In flight" selected for the auction of Sotheby's and with the sponsor of the association Wanba and Athena support  of a missionary hospital in Africa.

Didi Cutrufo