Marta Motti, oil painter and digital illustrator

I do storyboards for adv, botanical illustrations and oil paintings. My main subjects are landscapes, flowers and portraits. Iā€™m attracted by nature, country chic and vintage stuff, handmade objects, and any kind of curiosity.

I was born in Prato in 1991 and I started studying fashion and costume design in 2005 at the Montemurlo art institute, now the Brunelleschi art school. After graduating I enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in the sculpture program, where the main instructor Stefano Patti initiated me towards in the study of portraits and the nude from life.

After the three-year degree I decided to enroll at the University of Florence for art history, but I decided to interrupt my studies to devote myself completely to oil painting, which I had the opportunity to learn in Vladimir Jovicevich's atelier.

In 2017, through the University, I came into contact with the Friars Minor of the province of Tuscany, who allowed me to open a studio in their convent in Piazza Savonarola. Until 2019 I stayed there to work on both private and church commissions, and, during the same period, I came into contact with the Artour-O association which gave me the opportunity to exhibit both in Italy and in Malta.

During this period I also began to create events for the Franciscan friars, inviting artists from Florentine schools to exhibit their paintings in clerical environments normally closed to the public.

In 2019, I closed my Florentine studio to join painter and now husband Jonathan Davis in Ontario, Canada where we stayed for six months during the pandemic. We then decided to move to Italy to try to buy a house and open our own studio to paint and create events and workshops.

In the meantime we had the opportunity to make friends within the local artistic community, also making ourselves known under the name of "Studio Peregrino", a project through which we are committed to creating artistic-cultural events every year.

In 2020 we took short courses in life painting and anatomy with the painters Daniela Astone, Ben Fenske and Amy Florence Moseley, with whom we also forged a deep bond of friendship.

Since September 2023 we are now living and working in Monte San Savino, Arezzo.