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I do not frame as a profession, if anything I paint.
But as a painter I make a plea: when you bring a painting to the framer, choose wisely and follow the framer's suggestions.

There's nothing worse than a badly framed painting (from a too thin frame to a wrong coloured one): is like having Scarlet Johansson dressed with a grandma nightgown, with orthopaedic slippers and no makeup.

I still don’t know how it happened, but through a friend’s friend’s friend, I got invited to a ornithological exhibition of both paintings and specimens. Yeah!

I still don’t have great info about it, excluding the period (end of May – June 2014), so stay tuned for updates. 

I have never considered myself a good photographer (I'd rather paint), but I really like taking pictures every now and then.
Most of the photos I shoot are at work, so a lot of scaffolds, frameworks, digs, but nevertheless still beautiful. Maybe I am a fool, but I do see beauty everywhere, even in reinforcement steel or in weird perspectives in building sites.

And so today I open a new deviant folder, completely dedicated to lucky shots of my work life.

Enjoy!

Since last 25th June, I am a mom : our daughter Elettra finally came into our lives and we're both on cloud nine!!!

I still have to get used to the feeling of being a mom, together with getting used to the screaming little banshee I procreated
The sensations are overwhelming: I look at my baby's face and I see my grandpa's eyebrows, my father in law's chin, my husband eyes and my mom's nose. We really made her from scratch and the power of this thought leaves me completely floored...

What will she be like? Will she be patient like her dad or an earthquake like me? Will she like reading like her dad? Will she love brushes&colours like her mom? Good questions, all of them with no answer for the time being.
But I am pretty sure that Elettra will grow up submerged by her parents love...

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... and by a lot of coloured pencils, notepads, brushes, pigments in every shape

I apologise for the long absence, but the last few months have been quite an hectic period. Last October my husband and I discovered that we were expecting : while he just happily lulled himself in his new daddy-to-be clothes, I was overwhelmed by hormones and their side effects. SLEEP, a lot of sleep! Until the end of 2011 I couldn't carry on with open eyes after 9-9.30 pm and weekends were dedicated to all the work piled up during the week because of my drowsiness.

My autumn exhibition went rather well considering that we had an almost flood (during the weekend between 4th-6th November it rained that most of the roads in western Piedmont were closed): on the whole I received a lot of visitors and also quite a lot of compliments. Unfortunately I didn't sell that much, but I earned enough to pay for the show expenses.
For all the curious people out there, here more info and the related gallery: quadri.studiomondino.it/Englis…

And now? Well I cannot stop painting (hell, no!), but definitely my artistic activity will slow down, at first due to pregnancy downsides, then after due the half metre that will change our lives .