1953 Born in Athens, Greece. British nationality.
1955 Moves to London, England, with family. Returns to Greece every Summer.
1995 Moves to Florence, Italy, with family.
1996 Buys a house with olive trees on a Tuscan hillside and begins to create a garden.
Now lives and works in Florence and London.
1970-1987 Studies Art and Dance in London and Paris (St Martin’s School of Art, and the Architectural Association, London; London Contemporary Dance School; London Dance Centre; L’Ecole des Beaux Arts and Joseph Russillo Dance School, Paris.); Studies Languages, Literature and Law (Italian in Florence; French at the Sorbonne; BA degree in English and French and Master’s degree in French from Sussex University; Diploma in Law from City University, London; professional qualification as a Barrister, Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Painting Studies from St. Martin’s School of Art).
1986 begins to practise Yoga and meditation.
1976 First group exhibition in Florence, Italy
1985 First one-woman show in London (The Garden Gallery)
1987 Sets up a studio in London and begins to work full-time as an artist. (After previously combining art with work as a teacher, translator, interpreter, tour guide and lawyer.)
1995 Sets up studio in Florence opposite 13th century Bargello museum which contains sculptures by Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini and Giambologna.
1996-2004 Begins long-term artistic dialogue and collaboration with Samuella Bianchi who has studied Teatro Danza (Dance Theatre) in Florence and is writing a thesis on Pina Bausch and Tanztheater.
2000 Begins ongoing collaboration with artist/ curator Javier Quintanilla in Barcelona
2004-2011 Works in Florence studio with Margot Chatard and the dancers Francesca Stampone and Simona Grazzini.
2010 Begins ongoing collaboration with Associazione Culturale Il Palmerino in Florence
2010 Begins collaboration with “Advancing Women Artists” in Florence
2011 Moves to London continuing to collaborate with artists and curators in Florence, Barcelona and Paris
2013 Sets up studio in Brighton, England.
Based in London and Brighton.
Dance Dreams and Journeys – Fragments of a Life
1976 onwards – Participates in group exhibitions in private and public galleries in England, France, Italy, Greece and Spain (including: the Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery; the British Council, Athens; Camden Arts Centre; Westminster Arts Council; Drassanes, Barcelona; Musée National du Livre d’Artiste, Verderonne, and other private and public spaces in Florence, London, Barcelona, Paris, Brazil)
1985 onwards – One-woman exhibitions: The Garden Gallery, London; The New Art Gallery, London; Lauderdale House, London; Salisbury Arts Centre, England; Enoteca dei Giraldi, Palazzo Borghese, Florence – paintings and presentation of artist’s book “Thalassa”; “We Map Out Our Obsessions” – Galleria Via Larga, Florence – sponsored by Provincia di Firenze and British Institute of Florence; “A Walk in the Woods – an artist’s journey through language and landscape” – talk and slide presentation given at The Harold Acton Library, British Institute of Florence and presentation and exhibition of artist’s book “A Walk in The Woods”; Loft de Arte Actuel (LARAC), Barcelona – “Jardines Secretos”: watercolour and video works and collaboration with Greek dancer Kalitsa Orfanouthaki for a unique performance. One woman shows in Matera, La Corte Arte Contempranea Florence, Burgh House & Hampstead Museum, London, Fokianou Arts Centre, Athens.
Member and Trustee of the Women’s Art Library, London. Contributor to “make” – the Magazine of Women’s Art, London
2003 Publishes “Dance, Dreams and Journeys – fragments of a life” an artist’s book which presents recurring themes in the artist’s work.
Collaboration with Javier Quintanilla and other international artists for the Barcelona Social Forum 2004
2004 “Juego de dados” (Game of Dice), exhibition at Centre Civic Ateneu Fort Pienc, Barcelona under the auspices of the European Social Forum (issues of identity/ dialogue/ multi-culturalism)
“Flower Power” Collyer-Bristow Gallery, London
“Spain” Collyer-Bristow gallery, London
2005 “Jogo de Dados”, exhibition at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintàna, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Collaboration with six other artists on unique artists’ book “Hommage à Lewigue” presented in Porto Alegre
2006 “Secret Gardens” temporary installation in Boboli Gardens, Florence
“Secret Gardens” one woman installation and exhibition, La Corte Arte Contemporanea , Florence (exibart)
Publication of catalogue for “Secret Gardens”
Talk and presentation of two videos of her work at The British Institute of Florence
Interviewed by The Florentine, issue 18 May 2006, c.f. www.theflorentine.net (page 20) Freelance arts writer for The Florentine (c.f. 2 November 2006 and 16 November 2006)
2007 Interviews artists in Florence and discusses support network for artists in the city. Article for The Florentine on contemporary artists in Florence, issue 12 July 2007, c.f. www.theflorentine.net (page 20).
Travels to China and Hong Kong and visits gardens and the Great Wall.
Becomes a Friend of Boboli Gardens. Writes article for The Florentine on Boboli Gardens and The Giardino Bardini, issue 4 October 2007 c.f. www.theflorentine.net (page 19)
Teaches watercolour painting in Boboli and other Florentine gardens.
Visits Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Andy Goldsworthy retrospective) and gardens in Yorkshire, Cheshire and Sussex. Visits and paints garden at Rousham.
Paints on Greek island of Sifnos.
Transfers plants from mother’s garden in Athens to Florence and London.
Begins to plant a garden in London.
Gives drawing classes in Florence studio.
Studies fresco techniques at La Bottega del Buon Affresco in Florence.
Begins collaboration with dancer Paola Carlucci in Florence studio. Discussions around Calvino’s “Città invisibili”.
Reads Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust – a history of walking”.
2008 Teaches drawing and painting in Florence.
Paints frescoes at La Bottega del Buon Affresco.
Begins collaboration with dancer Chiara degli Innocenti in Florence studio.
Explores research ideas for practise-based Phd in London. Meetings at Chelsea College and Goldsmith’s College and attends presentations by Research Students at University of the Arts, London.
Visits the Gardens at Ninfa with Boboli Friends.
Meets former student, Don Anselmo Florio, at the Monastery of Casamari.
Painting trip to Greek islands of Simi and Koufonissi.
Studies sculpture at The City Lit, London.
Designs garden in London.
“Basura” (“Rubbish”), group exhibition curated by Javier Quintanilla at Centre Civic Ateneu Fort Pienc, Barcelona, October 2008.
2008 Christmas Eve an evening walk through the “Sassi” in Matera, Southern Italy, with Gianni Maragno. Meets Nicola Lisanti at “Il Comignolo” and is invited to have an exhibition at his gallery in the “Sassi”.
2009 Participates in drawing workshops in London at the National Gallery and the Tate Modern. Attends painting workshops at the National Portrait Gallery in connection with the Gerhard Richter retrospective and examines connections between photography, painting and ideas of representation .
Visits Vienna and sees the Breughel paintings and the Greek sculptures at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Sees Gerhard Richter’s watercolours at the Albertina.
Throughout May, paints in gardens in and around Florence with friends from England and writes illustrated article for “Painting the Spring in a Florentine Garden”, The Florentine, Issue No.104/2009, June 18 2009. www.theflorentine.net
Sees Wagner’s opera “Gotterdamerung”, conducted by Zubin Mehta and directed by “La Fura del Baus” at the Teatro Communale in Florence.
Paints on the islands of Rhodes and Antiparos in Greece.
Sees the exhibition of Robert Mappelthorpe’s photographs and videos “The Perfection of Form” at the Accademia in Florence.
August 2009 visits Venice Biennale of Art for the seventh consecutive time with dancer and choreographer Kallitsa Orfanouthaki and continues their ongoing discussions and projects on the origins and workings of creativity.
September 2009 – Exhibition “Mythologies 2009 – Rea Zoe Stavropoulos” at “Il Comignolo”, Sasso Barisano, Matera, Southern Italy.
Exhibition and Presentation of Book “Mythologies 2009 – Rea Zoe Stavropoulos”: English and Italian texts written by the artist for the Matera exhibition and images by the artist.
Gallery talks about the work given by journalists Carmela Cosentino and Enzo Scalcione.
Artist’s talks and presentation of the exhibition, in English and Italian, to students and teachers from local Secondary Schools (“Licei”).
Artist’s Gallery talk to women attending the “Matera Writers” Festival 2009.
Interviewed for Italian Television channel TRMTV by Michele Cifarelli Invited by Donato Pace to participate in forthcoming touring exhibition of artists from the Mediterranean region.
November 2009 Journey to Cyprus: visits father’s family in Paphos and the village house where her father was born, built by his great great grandmother in 1760. Paints at Petra tou Romiou – the legendary site where Aphrodite rose from the sea – and sketches the Third Century AD mosaics at the House of Dionysus, the House of Aion and the Villa of Theseus in Paphos.
December 2009 Private presentation in London of Matera video and small works from “Mythologies 2009”.
February 2010 Invited to Athens for Kallitsa Orfanouthaki’s solo dance performance at the Akis Thavis Theatre.
Collaborates on video work with Kallitsa and writes “Dancing into Light” in English. Collaborates with Sonya Krantonelli on Greek version of text.
March – September 2010 Commissioned by Donato Pace to produce works for “Drappi Colorati” exhibition and installation opening in the Sassi di Matera in July 2010 and touring to various venues through Basilicata, Puglia and Calabria. Works in Florence on “Aphrodite Project” begun in Cyprus, also making studies in the Uffizi from Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”.
Paints outdoors in a Florentine garden the mixed media work “Afrodite” for the installation in the Sassi di Matera. Meets writer and journalist Melinda Gallo and is interviewed for The Florentine. (ISSUE NO. 125/2010 / JUNE 17, 2010)
Visits Villa Il Palmerino on the outskirts of Florence. Participates in various debates organised by the Il Palmerino cultural association – Jane Fortune’s campaign concerning works by women artists in the Medici collections. Writes “Visibility for women artists” The Florentine (ISSUE NO. 126/2010 / JULY 1, 2010); the role of photo-journalism and the effects of migration on various communities within Europe. Hears the Brazilian poet Maria Theophilo read, in Portughese, her poems about the Amazon forest, and sketches her hands as she recites.
December 2010 Article for The Florentine “Women Artists of Wit and Great Ingenuity”, (Issue No.133/2010 / December 9, 2010)
January 2011 invited by Javier Quintanilla to participate in a group installation/exhibition on the problem of Rubbish and Waste to be held in Barcelona and then transferred to France. Work for the exhibition was prepared in Florence and London.
8 January 2011 – Letter published in the Financial Times Women artists have to be part Mrs Moneypenny, part Harry Eyres about women artists as role models for society.
April 2011 “Looking over Leonardo’s Shoulder” article for “The Florentine” (Issue No.140/2011/April 7 2011)) on the Renaissance drawings exhibition at the Uffizi, transferred from London and “re-presented” in Florence – a collaboration with the British Museum in London. Interviews Marzia Faietti, Director of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe at the Uffizi and Hugo Chapman, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum (Assistant Keeper at the time).
May 2011 Invited to participate in the annual Goat Milk Festival of Bela Rechka, Bulgaria, with the Associazione Culturale Il Palmerino of Florence – part of a cultural exchange. “Abandoned House project” – installation, performance and poetry readings from Eliot’s East Coker and Cavafy.
September 2011 Exhibits in “Brossa, Caos i Art”, curated by Javier Quintanilla, at the Casa Elizalde arts centre, Barcelona.
October 2011 Invited by Giovanna Giusti to participate in the exhibition “Hortus”, at Mattonaia 25, Florence.
October 2011 Invited by art restorer Franco Santeramo to use his studio in the Sassi di Matera for a month
March 2012 “Poubelle Chaos et Art” exhibition at L’Espace Beaujon, Paris
June 2012 Exhibition travels to Verderonne, Picardie, as part of “Chaos et Merveilles” at the Centre Artistique de Verderonne (CLAC)
June 2012 “A Fragile Balance – solo exhibition, Burgh House and Hampstead Museum, London
September 2012 Opens new studio in Brighton
December 2012 Studio exhibition – New England House Open Studios
April 2013 Artist’s residency at Villa Il Palmerino Florence, running an art course for local residents and participation in exhibition “Coincidenze”
December 2013 “And soft winds blow aroma of honey” exhibition at Burgh House and Hampstead Museum with Amanda Dean
December 2013 Studio show
October – December 2014 Produces limited edition calendar “Hampstead Sketches” and concurrently works on artist’s book “Walking on the Heath – Pages from an Artist’s Sketchbook”.
October 2014 participates in the all day .”Grand Drawing Circus” organised by “Draw” in Brighton.
November 2014 begins art workshops in Brighton studio. Burgh House art classes continue and holds outdoor art classes on Hampstead Heath.
December 2014 participates in Open Studios, Brighton.
Radio interview on Juice 107.2 radio show “Brighton Nights” to talk about New England House.
Open Studios Radio interview with Laura Evans for the Business Show on Radio Reverb about small creative business models during the Open Studio days.
March 2015 Women of the World Festival at South Bank, London, invited to attend the Charities and Campaigners Day and the Women in the Creative Industries Day – talks about the history of Women Artists and the work of the Women’s Art Library and the Advancing Women Artist’s Foundation, Florence.
Appointed to Advancing Women Artists Foundation (AWA) Florence Council of Advisors.
April 2015 invited to participate in the Inspiring Women in the Arts event in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, to talk to 800 schoolgirls about careers in the Arts and “life journeys”.
May 2015 Attends inaugural meeting of AWA Council of Advisors in Florence and launch of Artemisia Gentileschi Conference in the Sala Bianca of the Palazzo Pitti (event filmed by Michael Palin for the BBC documentary on Gentileschi) organised by the Medici Archive project.
June 2015 Illustrated talk at Burgh House & Hampstead Museum about sketchbooks and Artist’s Books: “Walking on the Heath – Pages from an Artist’s Sketchbook”.
July 2015 Painting on Greek island of Aegina.
Visits Venice Biennale.
Works on “Abandoned Houses” video project and other video pieces.
September – October 2015 Spent one month in Colombia – travelled to the far north of the country, through the La Guajira desert to Punta Galenas in a 4×4 with a driver from the Wayúu people – local indigenous inhabitants who were never subjugated by the Spaniards; staying on a ranch in the desert and visiting the northernmost point of Colombia and of South America. Then along down the northern coast of Colombia to Cartagena, into the jungle of Tayrona and up to Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta – painting and keeping a diary and sketchbooks.
November – December 2015 Brighton/ London Teaching and painting.
Brighton Studio show with invited artist and long-time collaborator Javier Quintanilla from Spain December
Interviewed for Latest TV by Ceirney Eddie
Javier Quintanilla’s Video of Rea Stavropoulos at the December studio exhibition reading Painting as an Act of Faith”,
January 2016 – Starts working in Brighton studio on “Swimmers” series inspired by underwater photos taken in Greece by son Marco in 2002, with models Frankie, Michaela and Laura.
April – May 2016 To Florence – Organised Residential painting course at Villa il Palmerino with London students painting in gardens of the Villa and also at Villa Peyron al Bosco di Fonte Lucente.
Invited to give a talk At Villa Il Palmerino,to mixed Italian and English speaking audience, about forthcoming London exhibition and the work of artist Helen Allingham (1848- 1926):“Beyond Watercolour Gardens – two Artists a Century Apart” / “Due Artisti Divisi da un secolo”
May 2016 – Visits the Chalkidiki peninsula in Northern Greece. Travels through mainland Greece in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedon, stays in Thessaloniki visiting the Archaeological and Byzantine museums and also visits the royal tombs at Vergina. Travels down the mainland to Athens visiting the sacred city of Dion at the foothills of Mount Olympus and the monasteries of Meteora. Revisits the archeological site of Delphi in a storm and Delphi museum.
July 2016 – Invited by Burgh House & Hampstead Museum curator Rebecca Lodge to co-curate “Beyond Watercolour Gardens: Helen Allingham Revisited” 5 July – 9 October 2016 and to exhibit her own artworks alongside Allingham’s together with texts giving her interpretation of Allingham’s life and work from the viewpoint of contemporary woman artist.
July 2016 – Interviewed by Sussex University Alumni Association for “Spotlight On….” profile.
Enters the world of Social Media with a professional page on Facebook and an Instagram account – both @Rea Stavropoulos Artist.
July – October 2016 Gives lectures, gallery talks and visits and participates in co-curators discussions throughout the period of the Burgh House exhibition
Illustrated talk on final day of the exhibition “Helen Allingham in the Twenty-First Century”
Video of gallery talk on You Tube
September – October 2016 Painting on Island of Aegina September – October 2016
November 2016 Invited to attend Ceremony in Florence commemorating 50 years since Florence flood as Council member of the Advancing Women Artists Foundation
Two paintings selected by art critic and curator Sacha Craddock for the ING Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries London November 2016
December 2016 Brighton Studio show
February 2017 revisits Matera, Basilicata
March 2017 attends WOW – Women of the World Festival at South Bank, London.
April 2017 leads residential painting course at Villa Il Palmerino, Florence.
June 2017 painting on Greek island of Aegina
August 2017 attends Venice Biennale
September 2017 – invited to organise and lead a “Big Draw” session at Burgh House & Hampstead Museum – part of a National public drawing initiative in the United Kingdom
September 2017 Painting on Greek island of Chios
October 2017 – Letter published in the Financial Times “Rewriting the myths about women” Letter to Financial Times (OCTOBER 28, 2017)
October – November 2017 Workshops and discussions with models/ collaborators Francesca Cluney, Naomi Wood and Michaela Meadow on “The Female Gaze/ the Naked and the Nude/ Artists and their Models”: ongoing research.
December 2017 Studio show Studio Lecture to invited audience on “The Naked and the Nude”
March 2018 – invited to organise and teach a Life Class at Burgh House & Hampstead Museum
2017-8 continues to teach regular watercolour painting classes at Burgh House & Hampstead Museum, outdoor sketching sessions around London and painting and drawing workshops in Brighton studio
April 2018 leads residential painting course at Villa Il Palmerino, Florence. Illustrated Talk at Il Palmerino “From Secret Gardens to Shifting Spaces”: a project for Athens
May – June 2018 Two person exhibition with Iliana Theodoropoulou “Shifting Spaces/ Μετατοπίσεις” at Fokianou 247 project space, Athens. Related talks and painting workshops
June 2018 – Article “The Florentine” 13 June 2018 “What does it mean to “Adopt an Apostle?” see theflorentine.net
July – September 2018 – Invited artist Summer Show, Concept Spetses Gallery, Spetses, Greece
9 October 2018 – Letter published in the Financial Times the day that Jane Fortune, founder of Advancing Women Artists was commemorated in a memorial service in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence
November 2018 – 31 March 2019 – Invited Artist Group Exhibition “All that I am Capable of Becoming – Women of Hampstead” Burgh House & Hampstead Museum, London
2018 Articles for “ Reflections” Zine produced by Burgh House & Hampstead Museum: “Women in Print” and “Beyond Watercolour Gardens: Helen Allingham Revisited”
December 2018 – Studio Show, Brighton
2 February 2019 – Letter published in the Financial Times“Channel the Spirit of Ruskin and awaken the artist within”
2018/9 Drawing events at Burgh House in addition to regular watercolour painting classes
8 February 2019 Artist’s Talk connected to the Hampstead museum exhibition at Burgh House. The day also marks the bicentenary of John Ruskin’s birth
13 March 2019 Organised Advancing Women Artists Event at the Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths College, University of London
March 2019 Burgh House evening drawing session “Fine Art/ Fine Wine”
May/June 2019 Florence “Ballet of the Nations” performance at Villa Il Palmerino and article for the June edition of “The Florentine” “A drama for our times: The Ballet of the Nations” https://www.theflorentine.net/art-culture/2019/05/ballet-nations-vernon-lee/
June/July 2019 Painting residency on island of Aegina. Visit Picasso and Antiquity exhibition at Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
July/August Visit Whitechapel Art gallery London to see Max Mara Award winner Helen Cammock’s video “Che si può fare” and have talks with Wells Fray Smith of the Whitechapel, Federica Parretti and Marina Dacci who collaborated with Cammock as well as an interview with Cammock as research for an article.
October 2019 in Italy: Florence – as Advocate working with “Advancing Women Artists” assist with the week of events marking the unveiling of Suor Plautilla Nelli’s restored “Last Supper” in the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella and the Spanish Chapel.
Reggio Emilia – at the Collezione Maramotti for the performance and opening of Helen Cammock’s “Che si può fare?; visit the collection and meet Marina Dacci and others who collaborated with Cammock in England and Italy. Attend the press conference where Iwona Blazwick, Director of the Whitechapel announces this year’s four finalists for the Max Mara Award for Women Artists
Article on Cammock’s work and the significance of her Florence residency published in the October issue of The Florentine “What can be done: Helen Cammock” https://www.theflorentine.net/art-culture/2019/10/helen-cammock-exhibition/ – an issue which celebrates female empowerment and sisterhood
Venice – visits the Venice Biennale
November 2019 Gives a series of Art Classes at Burgh House & Hampstead Museum
December 2019 Studio show in Brighton
Article in the December issue of “The Florentine” which celebrates the act of giving and the benevolent Zia Caterina “A Ride with Zia Caterina” .
January 2020 Visits Palermo – first visit to Sicily. Sketches the Byzantine mosaics in the cathedrals of Monreale, Cefalù and city churches.
February 2020 Invited by Linda Falcone, Director of Advancing Women Artists to participate in the “Garzoni Challenge” linked to the forthcoming exhibition at the Uffizi Gallery: “The Greatness of the Universe in the art of Giovanna Garzoni” and to organise related events in the UK linking Garzoni’s art to contemporary developments in Still life. Plans events for March at the Women’s Art Library, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, with curator Althea Greenan and workshops in London and Brighton.
March 2020 Based in London working in Kitchen studio and elsewhere at home following the onset of Covid-19. Garzoni Challenge events cancelled and Uffizi exhibition postponed but creative collaboration continues with correspondents and artists in England, Italy, Greece, Spain and Japan over the succeeding months of lockdown in the UK and elsewhere.
Issues a painting challenge to 8 year old Markos in lockdown with his family in Rome, initiating a “conversation” through each other’s paintings, sent by email via his mother Francesca.
Begins a series of art classes, with all students working remotely from their homes.
Writes various articles about creativity in quarantine for “The Florentine”, “Inside AWA” and the Burgh House newsletter.
March -July 2020 Works primarily on still or “stilled” lives.
Rediscovers Hampstead Heath for daily walks and outdoor painting.
2020 “The Garzoni Challenge” online exhibition organised by Advancing Women Artists in response to Uffizi Gallery’s exhibition dedicated to Baroque painter Giovanna Garzoni
https://advancingwomenartists.org/news/special-events/the-garzoni-challenge
2020 “Art in Adversity” online exhibition organised by Burgh House & Hampstead Museum London documenting creative projects developed through Lockdown in the Hampstead community
September 2021 Painting trip to Greek islands – first journey abroad since the pandemic
8 October 2021 Artviews.gr article Το ελληνικό καλοκαίρι της εικαστικού Rea Stavropoulos (Rea Stavropoulos’ Greek Summer)
https://artviews.gr/to-elliniko-kalokairi-tis-rea-stavropoulos/
December 2021 – Studio exhibition by invitation showing lockdown works and recent Greek island works
2020 – 2022 Online Art Classes continue for 108 successive weeks since the first UK Lockdown
5 May – 5 June 2022 “The Female Gaze meets the Oltrarno Gaze” site specific installation in Florence. Invited to participate in “Bridges”: a Book Art exhibition at the Colonica of Villa Il Palmerino Florence part of the “Oltrarno Gaze 2022” series of events held throughout Florence to create a dialogue between contemporary artists and artisans and women artists in history. An Advancing women artists (AWA) Legacy project organised by the British Institute of Florence and Il Palmerino Cultural Association and under the patronage of the Consulate of the USA in Florence
June 2022 included in Exhibition and Presentation of Book “Florence in the Making” at Sotto al British, celebrating artists and artisans in Florence’s Oltrarno and beyond
June – September 2022 “The Journey” group exhibition at Gallery Art Prisma, Piraeus, Greece
October – November 2022 visits Japan for the first time and travels through the country, painting and creating new concertina books. New friendships and continuing inspiration. Stays on Naoshima, the “Art island”
December 2022 Studio show Brighton studio
March 2023 “Cerchi e Trovi” in conversation with art historian Giovanna Giusti, Artist’s Talk and Presentation of artwork in Italian at Le Murate Art District (MAD), originally a 14th century convent and later a women’s prison, in Florence. Introduced by MAD artistic director Valentina Gensini.
2023 -2024 Working on Artist’s Book “A Female Gaze: Stories of Passion and Perseverance”
Works in Private and Public collections in UK, France, Austria, Greece, Spain, Italy, Russia, Cyprus, USA, Sri Lanka, India and South America.
Teaching and lecturing:
Life drawing and watercolour painting classes (adults); Life drawing course planned specifically for dancers; English language, literature and writing skills for adults (individuals and groups); lecturing on professional accountability and the legal process at De Montfort University and Surrey University in the United Kingdom; leading Art History tours of Europe for American High School and University students and adults; Co-director of Accademia Britannica, Florence, organising and lecturing on cultural and garden tours of Tuscany and the Veneto.
Collaboration with/ Teaching at Burgh House and Hampstead Museum 2014 – 2021
Teaching at Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London – 2024
