[amarilliart.com]

I am an italian figurative artist (painter, illustrator and interior decorator).

I’m not very good at writing self-bios, so I will be very short and if you need a “third person bio” about me just scroll longer down the page (but what I say here is pretty much the same which is written there).

I have studied Art at the Brera Academy in Milan where I had the chance to learn especially from 2 fantastic teachers, one for painting/drawing, Beppe Devalle, and one for etching, Mario Benedetti, to which I am very grateful to this day (there is no painting day where I don’t think about them!).
Beside that I also studied Illustration at the Sforza Castle School in Milan.

At the age of 18 I developped an interest (/obsession) in the country of Norway and its language, because I felt inspired by the nordic athmosphere and mythology, and felt very much at home there, as if I had lived there before.
I also had some special dreams about being there, and I also loved a-ha (which I took as an utter sign that I was meant to move there ^_^).
At the age of 24, after several trips, I took the final step and moved to the city of Bergen.

To this day I don’t know if it’s true that I was meant or not to move there, fact is that I have spent in the lovely Bergen some of the most significant and fun years of my life.
I considered myself a painter but indeed I was involved in a very wide variety of activities, jobs and socialities. In this period I had a brief but technically/emotionally intense parenthesis as apprentice ceramist, and I also decorated several public places in different styles (one very folk!).
In 2000, yet, tired in the body and mind of the lack of sun, I moved back to Italy and I finally found the necessary isolation and serenity to begin to paint “for good”, leaving behind languages, tourists and the like.
I live now in the Tuscan countryside, and work at my personal painting projects, as well as, occasionally, for an interior decoration company. This last job is very interesting because often it’s about restoring very ancient mural works, so  it allows me to learn traditional tuscan /senese ways of richly decorating  homes and buildings.
I am always open to commissions for portraits which I enjoy very much to make, especially if they can be with a fantasy or ancient/costume theme (but also classical is ok).

Thank you for your interest in me and my work

Here is the “3d person bio” :

Amarilli was born in Milan.

Her dreamy and fantasiful nature lead her to express an instinctive and deep interest for art since early childhood; she learns to cherish it in her stimulating family environment (where we find for instance orchester director Arturo Toscanini and Giuseppe Banchieri, painter and founder of the XXth century movement which got the name of ‘Existential Realism’).

Later Amarilli learns how to cultivate and develop her artistic talents, which seems to go hand in hand with an extraordinary affinity towards the realms of folklore mythology and magic, which will become the characteristic element of her style.

Amarilli’s education begins at the age of 5 in Milan’s French College Stendhal, where she obtains at the age of 17 a Baccaluaréat A2 (languages and philosophy). Later, after some years of pause from the studies and travelling, where she matures her decisions for the future, and after three years spent at the Illustration and Comics course at the Superior School of Art of Sforza Castle in Milan, she attempts the admission exham at the Art Academy of Brera in Milan, accesses it and completes her art studies by attending during four years its Painting Section, under the guidance of the eccellent professor Beppe Devalle.

Amarilli studies art : she has a special penchant for terra cotta sculpture, comics and web design. Her favorite artists are T. Kittelsen, E. Munch, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, T. de Lempicka, E. de Morgan, D. G. Rossetti, Caravaggio, Sodoma, G. Banchieri, and many others.

She stays in Norway from years 1994 to 2000, living in the city of Bergen; here she mostly dedicates herself to painting, but she has the opportunity to work for a certain period for a successful sculptor/ceramist, giving life to a sculpture project about the local mythology.

She makes some trompe-l’œuil-works and takes care of the interior decoration of some public places.

At the present moment, she lives in the peace of a tuscan country house and works at her projects within interior decoration, illustration, webdesign and painting.

Bio written by Rosanna V.