“Into the peace of wild things”
I create peaceful wildlife art, luminous works with goldleaf backgrounds on canvas inspired by the serenity of nature.
Nature is a marvelous place of never-ending inspiration to me. It is where Beauty began, where we all belong, and where we all come back to when we need to have a recharging contemplation.
My subjects are the colorful variety of living things, tiny and fragile yet surprisingly resourceful.
I start my work with photography and drawings. I explore my subjects by doing research online, in books, or in person, and I mainly use oil on gold leaves and textured backgrounds.
I often combine different media and layers of primers to give my works a textured feel. In fact, I often work on a multifaceted surface where colours and light can interact in unexpected ways.
My colors combine warm and cold shades for the sense of balance they give me, primarily blue-green with red-yellow.
I love to work with gold leaf. It is a heritage from my experience as a decorator and gilder. I am fascinated by gold's capacity to reflect light in different shades, giving back different feelings every time you look at it.
Through the gold on the background, I intend to create a waterfall of warm, enveloping light that inspires a sense of serenity, beauty, and belonging.
I am also deeply inspired by Chinoiseries for their joyful, delicate design, as well as traditional religious Icons with gilded backgrounds for their sense of peace, knowledge and contemplation.
Gold, in fact, has been used throughout the centuries to symbolize the transcendent, the spiritual world, the union between heaven and earth, and it is this contemplative state I aim, to give the viewer the space of a serene meditation on the world we belong to, a contemplation that evokes a reverent feeling towards the serenity of nature, a sense of joy, beauty and peace.
B 1981, Rome, Italy
BFA, Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, 2008
Eleonora is a wildlife and gold leaf artist born in Rome, Italy.
She grew up loving all the beautiful art she constantly saw around her, the colours, the quiet Villas, and all the contradictions of a big city.
She began drawing as a child and never stopped.
Since 2000, she has been selected for several solo and group exhibitions, festivals, and workshops, including the prestigious recent group exhibition Wildlife Artist of the Year at the Mall Galleries (UK, 2025), organized by the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation.
Or the one by the Association of Animal Artists at the Rose Paterson Gallery (Shifnal, UK 2024) and The Station Art Gallery (Richmond, UK 2024), the one by Garte Milano at Palazzo Regione Lombardia (Milan, IT 2024), and the Wildlife Artist of the Year (UK 2021).
She is also a member of the Association of Animal Artists, andDavid Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with BBC Wildlife Magazine, has selected her as a finalist for the Wildlife Artist of the Year award in 2021 and 2025.
After graduating with her art degree, she began working in decorative arts and conservation workshops, collaborating with architects and interior designers, and primarily focusing on commissions. During this period, she learned decorative interior techniques and fascinating traditional techniques, including fresco, Grotesque, egg tempera, and gilding.
In 2012, she moved to Bristol, UK. Here, she learned many invaluable lessons, like the challenge and enrichment of meeting different cultures.
She also got married and had a daughter in 2017.
She exhibited in several galleries and open exhibitions, and worked as a decorative workshop assistant and conservation assistant in various studios between Bristol and London.
During this experience, she encountered other beautiful techniques, such as verre églomisé, gilding, and painting on glass and mirrors.
In 2020, she moved to Vienna, Austria, with her family. In 2023, after a long period of wandering, they returned to Rome, near family and friends, where she continues to paint from her home studio.
Her work is figurative and nature-inspired. It is published in specialized art magazines, books, and catalogs.
Some of her pieces are in private collections in Italy, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Brazil, the United States, and Canada.
EDUCATION
2008Master's Degree, Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Master of Arts (110/110 cum laude)
2006 Degree, Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, (110/110)
