Passion
Gracie grew up in an Italian migrant family in Melbourne and is the youngest of seven sisters. She was the only daughter born in Australia and so straddles two cultures. It has only been in her latter years that she has come to embrace her Italian culture and appreciate how family and culture can shape who we are.
Gracie formally trained and worked for many years as a Kindergarten teacher and now works as a teacher in Children's Services.
Her knowledge of and work with children has further developed her eye for observation and appreciation of being in the moment and how much joy and beauty can be found when stopping to look.
Gracie has created art ever since she can remember and always as a way of expressing her emotions. Gracie's art education has been many and varied classes over the years, each of which contribute to her growth as an artist. She draws on the natural world as inspiration, medium and restoration. Her recent attainment of the Certificate in Initiatic Art therapy strengthened her understanding of how powerful art is as a healer.
Gracie's favorite style of artistic expression is in drawing and painting. This style is most evident in her first self-published picture story book based on a re-telling of one of her mother's Italian fairy tales. (Le Tre Favette -The Three Broad Beans).
Illustrations for The Green Man & Brown Mountain continue using this style with more emphasis on nature, flora and fauna that Gracie loves. The story written by Leigh Adamson about their nephew Andrew Lincoln and his work in helping to save the flora & fauna of Brown Mountain in Goongerah, East Gippsland self published by echo ink 2017, launched at Dromkeen Homestead and gallery, Riddells Creek, 2018.
Gracie's project on a series of paintings of Australian children at play culminated in her first solo exhibition in 2015.
Gracie formally trained and worked for many years as a Kindergarten teacher and now works as a teacher in Children's Services.
Her knowledge of and work with children has further developed her eye for observation and appreciation of being in the moment and how much joy and beauty can be found when stopping to look.
Gracie has created art ever since she can remember and always as a way of expressing her emotions. Gracie's art education has been many and varied classes over the years, each of which contribute to her growth as an artist. She draws on the natural world as inspiration, medium and restoration. Her recent attainment of the Certificate in Initiatic Art therapy strengthened her understanding of how powerful art is as a healer.
Gracie's favorite style of artistic expression is in drawing and painting. This style is most evident in her first self-published picture story book based on a re-telling of one of her mother's Italian fairy tales. (Le Tre Favette -The Three Broad Beans).
Illustrations for The Green Man & Brown Mountain continue using this style with more emphasis on nature, flora and fauna that Gracie loves. The story written by Leigh Adamson about their nephew Andrew Lincoln and his work in helping to save the flora & fauna of Brown Mountain in Goongerah, East Gippsland self published by echo ink 2017, launched at Dromkeen Homestead and gallery, Riddells Creek, 2018.
Gracie's project on a series of paintings of Australian children at play culminated in her first solo exhibition in 2015.
