Lucia Gonnella is a plein air painter who paints in the streets of San Francisco.She tries to seize the moment using acrylics, watercolors, and oils.
She was born in Bari, Italy where before long she showed an early passion for painting and drawing which continued during her career as a French and Italian teacher and continues even today. SheI studied design, composition, and life drawing at the Academy of Brera in Milano.
Teaching French and Italian in middle Schools was not a happy experience for her until in 2006 when she met Martha Zlatar an art coach who finally helped her accept that she was an artist and she started to paint everyday outdoor for the first time in her life.
In 2011 she found an artist community in North Beach that supported her and helped her to develop her artist expression . She do solo and group shows in the Bay Area in places like Live Worms Gallery and City Art Gallery. IShe also participated in the Open Studios with ArtSpan and Art Explosion and exhibited in Italy and Hawaii. She teaches online and in-person watercolor workshops for Next Village and Hayes Valley Art Works
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Not only painter,but also poet "Sorge l‘immoto sole"
By Lucia Gonnella
Read by Lucia Diomede at the La Notte Bianca della Poesia in Giovinazzo Bari, Italy on September 4, 2020