Red Tweny was born in Rome in 1964. First of two children, he lives a childhood iper-protected from the mother, who perhaps will be for him the imprinting of a sense of insecurity and of estrangement from reality, plaintiff in his life and in his works. He graduated in 1984 at the Mary Mount College in Rome, whose pedagogic method, characterized by a humanistic philosophy of religion, gave a prominent role to the "spiritual nourishment" of creativity.
His artistic talent is revealed early, encouraged by his mother who sent (barely twelve years old) to drawing lessons from an illustrator, within the same College. Since childhood Red shows interest in art, driven from his mother that forced him - obsessively - to visit the main exhibitions of contemporary art arranged in Rome in the middle of 70’s.
Red, barely twenty years old, was struck by the death of his father - who himself finds lifeless - marking deeply the psyche and then the style of his subjects. He gets started to attend many collective exhibitions in Rome, where he stands for the search of new subjects in the new italian figuration. In 1985, helped by his artistic talents, began to work in advertising department of Eni, the italian energy company, where during all the 90’s he had the chance to know and work closely with the main advertising international agencies that influenced him, producing a style where living together the direct advertising graphics style and the elements of classical and the surreal painting. In the 90's he uses also the technique of watercolor, then in 2000 he choose the black ink which helps to make his style and his subjects instantly recognizable.