French Accent, Italian Blood, Brooklyn Spirit, Desert Lover
Vibrant freelance visual artist, illustrator and creative consultant, based in Southern Arizona.
Meet Valeria
Valeria grew up in Paris, lived in Brooklyn NY, and resides now in Southern Arizona.
Her Italian mother gave birth at the American Hospital in Paris. Her Tuscan family instilled her rigor, ethics, pride, and the art of cooking.
She studied at the ENSAAMA School of Art & Design in Paris and started her professional career as an art director in fashion magazines. There, she met the "crème de la crème" fashionistas and developed a sense of style defined by a cross-cultural “je ne sais quoi”.
In New York Valeria found her place in a family of jazz musicians, and married a talented exuberant saxophonist. His Mexican origins brought her to connect with her latin culture and made her fall in love with the Sonoran Desert.
She uses black ink, clay, oil, and gouache paint. Valeria’s artwork is infused with her background complexity: chic and loud, red lipstick and cowboy hat, delicate black lines and bold shapes, classical subjects and emotive abstraction.
