“Art can be a need, a scream, a soul, a word, a note, a pigment, a thought. Art is life.
MAKE YOUR LIFE A MASTERPIECE!”
Maria Di Gaetano
Maria Di Gaetano is an artist and educator based in Uk.
Born in Italy in 1984, Maria started to love art at the age of 5 thanks to her artistic family members. After attending the Artistic High school she moved to Florence from Sicily, where she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence in 2008 with a BA in Scenography-mostly for Opera. The smell of Renaissance and the incredible beauty of the city were the basis of developing several creative interests such as teaching and writing, alongside the artistic ones.
After 12 years in Florence, she decided to move to England in 2015 where she now happily resides.
Maria’s artistic practice covers a varied and informed use of different media such as oils, watercolours, inks, acrylics, and pencils ranging from portraiture,charcoal landscapes, sumi-e and abstracts. Her abstracts explore inner feelings and emotions generated by casual or inducted events. Her charcoal landscape recall Victorian green spaces and era.
Maria is interested in the philosophical as well as the psychological side and power of art. This is why she also try to express thoughts and subconscious realities not always possible expressed with words. Art for Maria is Kintsugi. The golden filling of the broken pieces of life.
Maria holds a Master degree in Art History, a PGCE in Education as well as Qualified teacher Status and a Web Design Qualification. Maria is an Art and Design tutor as well as a Qualified Teacher of Design and Technology. MariaDi Gaetano is also an independent Art and languages tutor, Emergent curator and co- founder of the Bookmark Artists Collective. She is editor of the BAC’s magazine and member of For Art History the Visual Artists Association, The Oscar Wilde Society and Cambridge Open Studios.
If you would like to read the magazine, you can find it here.
Some of Maria’s works are featured in the Boomer Gallery magazine n3-Identity p78 and in the September Issue n37-p42 of the Visual Art Journal.
