Ever seeking the quiet inner voice of the feminine. Acrylic, oil, and watercolor pencils blend with echoes that breathe.
Time is felt in shivers. Between dream and elsewhere, a space of healing appears, where thoughts glow and beauty lives in fragility and decadence.
I was born in Rome in 1978 and studied literature and anthropology. Poetry and painting were constants of my youth, but choosing them as a career felt difficult then. Instead, I worked as a radio journalist and later as a press officer for a Member of the European Parliament in Brussels. During those years, meeting peace activists in conflict zones deeply transformed me. In my youth, I had dreamed of being a war reporter; I realized later that what moved me wasn't the conflict itself, but the fragile, stubborn humanity surviving within it.
After a period as a full-time mother, I decided to move with my family to Vienna in 2014, an impulsive yet necessary decision to offer myself and my children another horizon. Ten years later, my love for this city remains whole, even as a part of me continues to seek l’Ailleurs: the unknown, an inner and physical elsewhere. I have always carried an irrepressible Sehnsucht, filling notebooks with sketches as a way to breathe and process life. Much of this longing is rooted in childhood memories of my grandparents’ vineyard near Rome: the overwhelming sun and the poetic minimalism of rural labor, an emotional geography of nostalgia that I infuse into my work.
Gradually, "stepping into the fire" of my process became inevitable. I chose to commit myself, to reach for Eve’s apple and burn like Icarus, as urgency finally replaced fear. This led me to study painting at the Kunst VHS in Vienna. My goal was, and is, not mastery, but rather disappearing into my process as a seeker exploring different directions. For the past four years, my studio in an old Viennese courtyard has been my paradise: a sanctuary for solitude and painting that also functions like the amphitheater in Michael Ende’s Momo, a place of open exchange. Through several exhibitions, I have also learned to share my path.
Portraits and nudes are at the center of my paintings, often of women who are both fragile and powerful, wounded and luminous. These women mirror something in me, a duality I know intimately, the coexistence of fracture and light. Recently, my focus has shifted more deeply toward the unconscious, turning the creative process into a relentless questioning of myself. I am drawn to the secret charm of the unknown, guided by an urgency to dismantle my own certainties and step beyond the "uncomfortable comfort zone" of the already known.
For me, painting is not a destination, but a state of permanent evolution, a dialogue through which I challenge myself in diverse environments, with nature, with others and with the unexpected, continuously discovering new dimensions of the self.
