About Me

After graduating in 1992 in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Milan, I worked several years in the plant production sector.

In 2000, I travelled down under for six months and then moved to England in 2001.

I always liked painting, and I tried many different media, but in the UK, I saw by chance a painting demonstration in the Bob Ross Technique. Fascinated by the effects achieved on the canvas―and mainly for curiosity―I eventually joined the training courses the company organizes. I qualified as an instructor in Landscape, Floral and Wildlife Technique and ran many workshops in my area.

This extensive training gave me a new insight into oil painting and the opportunity to develop my own style, combining traditional oil painting with the wet on wet technique. At last, I could express my passion for the natural world and all its beauty. I had the tools and skills I needed to paint large canvases, with animals and plants in real size, in spectacular settings. No more limits to my imagination!

Creating the Watership Down collection was, without doubt, a unique experience and a great satisfaction. Quite possibly, it was the final development of an idea that I had unconsciously carried in the back of my mind since my childhood, when a Christmas I received as a present a novel that told the story of a band of rabbits….