Biography


Silvana Brunotti was born in Rome on January 23, 1932.

In 1947 she enrolled herself in the Art School of Rome, where her teachers were Guttuso, Gentilini and Montanarini.

She took the diploma in 1951 and, afterwards, she thaught drawing for a short period at the secondary school of Poggio Mirteto.

In 1952 she left the teaching and she enrolled herself in the Fine Arts Academy of Rome.

Always in those years, after she conceived a passion for the ceramics, she learned all the techniques and the passages of its workmanship in a factory near Rome.

In the following years she devoted herself to the ceramics and, above all, to the painting, since then her principal form of expression.

Only in 1985 she took part at her first extemporary painting competition, and she won the 2nd prize.

Next year she won the 1st prize at the extemporary painting contest “Spring of Terracina” and, in that occasion, she met the art critic Giorgio Marlin who, impressed by her painting, in the following years he involved her in a series of important initiatives.

On July 1987 she took part at the international collective exhibition “Woman in Art” in Rome and, on September she received a certificate of merit at the Tiberine Academy of Rome, where she took part at the collective exhibition “Painters at the Tiberine Island”.

Prizegiving in Terracina with Giorgio Marlin

Silvana Brunotti at the inauguration of “Woman in Art”

Two months later she took part at the collective exhibition “Roman Meetings” at the Gallery “La Sponda” and next month she exhibited at the Gallery “Triangolo Verde”.

Prizegiving at the Gallery “La Sponda”

On November 1988 Silvana Brunotti exhibited her works in her first personal exhibition at the Gallery “Il Quadriportico” in Piazza di Spagna.Inauguration at the Gallery “Triangolo Verde” with Enrico Gasbarra

In the following years she took part at numerous extemporary contest in Rome and in Lazio, always obtaining wide acclaims both by the critics and the public, as in the following exhibitions.

Since 1990 she has been members of the association “A.R.T. Studio Tre”, organizer of various artistic events in the capital, such as the six-monthly exhibition “Kings of Rome”.

In 1991 her work “Carsoli” won the special prize of the wine producer from the Abruzzi “Casal Thaulero” and it is selected for the label of a special series of 1995.

A work of her is exhibited in certain periods of the year in the church of the “De Merode Institute” in Piazza di Spagna.

Her works are exhibited in worldwide private collections.

Nowadays Silvana Brunotti live and works in Rome.

Art Colleges

| Home | Biography | Virtual Gallery | Awards | Exhibitions | The critics | Links | Contact us | How to buy | Guestbook | Newsletter | Site Map |