Essegì Stefania Gagliano

In viaggio alla scoperta dell'Anima, pensando a Musica, Danza e Mare...

Travelling&Listening to Soul, thinking about Music, Dance and Seaside...

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I was born in Ragusa on 7th June 1987.
Always in love with drawing and illustration, I graduated in Graphic Design at Academy of fine Arts in Catania in 2010. I've been attending advanced masterclass about traditional and digital illustration in Florence and Sarmede (TV), since 2011 till now. I love holding workshops for children at bookshops in Modica and streaming masterclass in English language to Russia (since July 2020), too. I create illustrations for agencies and privates. I sell my paintings through online shops, I have delivered them to collectors in Europe and America. I took part of painting exhibitions in Florence, Sarmede, Genova, Ortigia, Ragusa, Den Haag (Holland). Since October 2021, I have been holding masterclass for children at Accademia Salzedo in Modica.

I love making illustrations through traditional ways, expecially watercolors, acrylics and dry point. I imagine every drawing and line like a kind of mosaic, in which every piece, created by brushstrokes, is embracing the composition and echoes figures of animals (or landscape) and people linked, in order to symbolize Soul and to convey emotions.
When I'm painting, I always listen to Music, cause it allows me to put colors on canvas or paper, like a ritual...