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About me
Born in 1967 at Silandro (BZ). In 1984 she graduates as Social and Family Worker and in 1989 she graduates in Artistic Photography in Innsbruck. She transfers to Switzerland where she continues her artistic studies in black and white photography. During these years she realizes that photography does not fully satisfy her expressive needs and attends visual art courses particularly at the Schüle für Kunst und Design in Zurich.
In 1990 she attends Art Therapy courses in Vienna following the approach and methods of both Luschen and Arno Stern. In 1991 she moves to Florence where her son Daniele is born. She dedicates several years to her maternal duties and her creative works. She experiments with various materials, such as crystal engraving, clay and wood sculptures and various types of experiments with painting on fabric. She attends various courses which allow her to specialise in pastel, pencil and charcoal drawing at the Accademia del Giglio and the Istituto d’Arte at Porta Romana. In 2005 Cesvot grants an award for a project promoted and conceived by her in collaboration with a Florentine Association of which Gucci is an important partner. The title: Impresa d’Arte-Tessuti d’Arte. Between 2008 and 2009 she begins an important collaboration as Designer at Stamperia Clerici Tessuti of Como with fabrics painted by her for a production connected with the world of high-fashion.From 2009 she begins a new collaboration as Designer with a Florentine artisan company, Lesy e Squash; she presented a collection at Pitti Bimbo of silk garments painted by her. In 2015 she obtained a Master in Illustration for Infancy at the school of International Comics in Florence, In 2015 she also opened her school-atelier PaidArte where she currently teaches painting.
translated by Jane Cattell
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