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Marilyn Day
Artist and Illustrator
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| Canadian born Marilyn Day went to London, England in her teens to
study art and began her career there illustrating cookery and gardening
books.Twenty years ago she moved to Tuscany and now lives there with her
family in an old farmhouse in the hills east of Florence. Her studio
overlooks the castello of Nipozzano and Frescabaldi vineyards. In Italy
she has illustrated many children's books and also produced the beautiful
artwork for the cards and decorative papers found in the "Il Papiro" shops
worldwide. Her watercolours are inspired by the local buildings and the produce of the fields and gardens that surround them, evoking the colours, flavours and harmony of central Italy. Prints of her still lifes are on sale in Italy and America. Her acrylic paintings, framed in original local windows, creates scenes of the winding lanes, farms and lush vegetation of rural Tuscany. |
