Biography
I have been painting for as long as I can remember. However, since I encountered Rudolf Steiner’s colour study, painting has become an integral part of my life. I am an interior designer but my artistic development really began when I met Anna Cardani and the Accademia San Luca, which she directs in Milan. My works originate from the choice background materials, which are often recycled and tell a tale all of their own. My canvases, made of cotton and linen, come from old clothes or jute sacks and are very often the inspiration for a new story. Even new canvases are either untreated or primed with rabbit glue; nothing industrial is used. The same goes for my choice of wood, recuperated from carpenter’s off-cuts or on building sites or, otherwise, from windows and doors discarded during renovation. My colours derive from natural pigments, made-up according to ancient recipes; acrylics are only a last resort when paintings are re-elaborated, re-utilized and recycled as stories and painting techniques superimpose and stratify.
