I was born in the early 1960's near Florence (Tuscany, Italy). At the time Italy was into a "Dolce Vita' Bohemian  life style with Cinema, Photographies, Fine Artists and Writers  and at the Height of the Economical boom. My wealthy -healty background helps me to be strong, but I was born to become a not, or anti conformist and after; an Outsider. My passion for the Arts was vivid since my early age. At the age of 21 I completed my studies and obtained a degree a Magisters in Naples in  History, Philosophy and Fine Arts  completed in 1985. Then I taught for a while, until I decided to abandon that career and go travel around the world. London was always a central point for me of inspiration, especially the Punk Scene at the time. I decided to come back and live in the city from 1994.

I studied in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 1988. 

 During my holidays in Argentina, I visited my late grandfather who always had been living in Buenos Aires. There I meet local folklore artists and painters in Baradero, with whom I participated into different exhibitions, in 1999 and 2002. 

Unfortunalty, when I was back to London, I had a traumatic experience of mental and physical experience of mental and physical abuse, after which painting and writing has resulted my only possibility to cope. Art and painting has filled the emptiness and I started to participate in two different Art Classes, that allowed me to learn and express myself creatively. In March 2013 I successfully submitted to the Impact Art Fair. Now I would like to carry on painting even more than ever and share the experience  of Art with people.  I hope that women (and en too!) I could always be painting, writing, dancing, creating Art and express themselves.  Through my visual work, I would like to arouse convey an emotion and provoke a reaction even if it is abreaction of disgust 

My style is alternative, inspired by classic artist like Michel Angelo and Piero Della Francesca, Caravaggio but also by Matisse, Gustave Klint, Chagall and Dix. People says that my paintings have a cinematographic quality, I have a story of every single one of them.  

 

Main exhibitions: 

-Impact art fair july, London 2013 

-Epiphanies, Saint Pancras Hospital Gallery,  London september 2013 

-Loudest Whispers 2014,Saint Pancras Hospital Gallery 

 

My artist testament: 

From an artistic wealthy background, I have always been an outsider. The Arts is my life, the Artist is happy to wear the garment as a night between ritual and result, Arts can make me faint, lose control, collapse,  but suddenly stand up and Bow and praise at the Art of Madness. My mutable being, persona, will be in balance only by the power of arts, as an artist,I feel mind racing and I will reincarnate to feed or or faces colours" and I wish to wear only like chrysanthemum. I would like to thanks a thousand Artists, the punk scene, and my love grandmother, Signora Lorena Benassai for helping helping me be who I am. 

 

 

I would like to thanks thousands people, people with wisdom and pretty colours inside, from Rimbaud to Matisse, from Modigliani, Rousseau and Picasso, Klint to Otto Dix, Caravaggio to Sophie Cochevelou, they are so talented on a different way! I love very much the mystery of fairies and mermaid to the forest to the sea, to Japan to Africa. From Paris to Polynesia. I love very much someone in the rock'n roll, Patti Smith is a iconic inspiration for me. I love writers and poets as Kafka, Tchekhov, Flaubert, Baudelaire.

 

This is an extract from the Poem l'Abatros in French where the poet explore the metaphor of the artist as a beautiful bird in the sky who can't fit in the real world:

"Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées

Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer;

Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,

Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher"

 

and Benediction that presents the artist as blessed and doomed at the same time:

"Lorsque, par un décret des puissances suprêmes,

Le Poète apparaît en ce monde ennuyé,

Sa mère épouvantée et pleine de blasphèmes

Crispe ses poings vers Dieu, qui la prend en pitié:"