About the Artist

I’m Italian. From Firenze. Italy.

I moved to United States only three years ago after I married Paul, an american guy, artist as well. He was on holiday in Italy in 2017, spending some days in Florence, and by chance at my house. At that time my mom’s bed&breakfast. 

Every time I tell our story I smile. It’s actually quite a story, that changed my and Paul’s life forever.

My family house, in Italy, is full of my paintings. Hanging on the walls all over. Still lifes, Florence landscapes, selfportrait, watercolors, drawings and copies from the Masters. Leonardo, Wermer, Brueghel the Elder, Chardin, Raffaello.

I was raised in Florence. I learned everything in Florence except for the last few years. My studies of Architecture first and then History and Art History. I’m a Tour Guide too. 

Many years ago though, I was in my early twenties, I would go to an incredible florentine workoshop downtown next to the Old Bridge, where I would study how to restore the ancient paintings. It’s from there that my passion for painting started. Putting your hands on precious artworks and giving them back life, shapes and colors. 

I worked many years in that field and I learned almost all I know about oil technique on canvas and wood. 

So, next, I wanted to do something original, a painting from life. Only mine. I tried it and I loved it! 

I never stopped since then. It was 1995.

I mostly paint in oil but I really enjoy watercolor too.                    

I paint indoor and plein air and almost always from life. 

Making Art is a solitary job. 

It’s challenging and beautiful at the same time. You suffer. You struggle. You think and think again. You start over, because you’re never satisfied. In the end you decide you are done and after you look at it again maybe the day after, you say to yourself that it’s not so bad. But the next time you want to do it better! Like in life.

My style is not always the same. Sometimes the work goes in a way I hardly can controll it. Sometimes I work harder on the style I decided ahead time, and therefore I focus badly on it along with the subject I chose. The important point to me it’s the result. I must like it, whatever style it has.