MARIANNA SAURO

Marianna graduated in Painting at the Cignaroli Academy of Fine Arts in Verona, Italy. She became passionate about ancient painting techniques, specialising in the research and study of recipes to prepare colours with plants and minerals. This led her to discover all plant dyes on fabrics and eco-printing techniques. With this art form, she created her own clothing collection. In her group Anima di Foglia, she shares ancient and new recipes for preparing colours by hand. She also works as an illustrator for children's books and guides educational workshops in which art, theatre, nature and fairytales are her teaching methods.

Explore Botanical Painting Meditation with Marianna at our residential Freedom to Create programme.