Passion
I grew up in an Italian migrant family in Melbourne and am the youngest of seven sisters. I was the only daughter born in Australia and so straddle two cultures and so appreciate how family and culture can shape who we are.
I formally trained and worked for many years as a Kindergarten teacher and now works as a teacher educator in the university sector.
My knowledge of and work with children has further developed my eye for observation and appreciation of being in the moment and how much joy and beauty can be found when stopping to look.
I have created art ever since I can remember and always as a way of expressing my emotions and experiences. My art education has been many and varied classes over the years, each of which have contributed to my growth as an artist. I draw on the natural world as inspiration, medium and restoration. Attaining the Certificate in Initiatic Art therapy strengthened my understanding of how powerful art is as a healer.
My favourite style of artistic expression is in drawing and painting. This style is most evident in my first self-published picture story book based on a re-telling of one of my mother's Italian fairy tales. (Le Tre Favette -The Three Broad Beans) and in the illustrations for The Green Man & Brown Mountain. The story written by Leigh Adamson and is about our 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.
The latest project of Fungi Town illustrations continue this style of drawing and painting and allow me to share the delightful colours and intricate detail of the amazing fungi growing in the south east of Australia. Its wonderful to discover ever more novel fungi in our beautiful part of the world! See latest Fungi Town project here.
I formally trained and worked for many years as a Kindergarten teacher and now works as a teacher educator in the university sector.
My knowledge of and work with children has further developed my eye for observation and appreciation of being in the moment and how much joy and beauty can be found when stopping to look.
I have created art ever since I can remember and always as a way of expressing my emotions and experiences. My art education has been many and varied classes over the years, each of which have contributed to my growth as an artist. I draw on the natural world as inspiration, medium and restoration. Attaining the Certificate in Initiatic Art therapy strengthened my understanding of how powerful art is as a healer.
My favourite style of artistic expression is in drawing and painting. This style is most evident in my first self-published picture story book based on a re-telling of one of my mother's Italian fairy tales. (Le Tre Favette -The Three Broad Beans) and in the illustrations for The Green Man & Brown Mountain. The story written by Leigh Adamson and is about our 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.
The latest project of Fungi Town illustrations continue this style of drawing and painting and allow me to share the delightful colours and intricate detail of the amazing fungi growing in the south east of Australia. Its wonderful to discover ever more novel fungi in our beautiful part of the world! See latest Fungi Town project here.
