After studying at the State Art Institute of Modena, Italy, Margherita specialized in fashion, focusing on knitwear. Upon completing her studies, she started her career as a designer, creating pieces that allowed her to express her creative vision. For her, the process of sketching from life is both fulfilling and exhilarating. Beyond fashion, Margherita is passionate about the visual arts and has explored various creative fields. She has designed sets for municipal theaters and studied courses in areas such as restoration of ancient paintings, gold leaf gilding, trompe-l’œil, and airbrush techniques. Fascinated by medieval and chancery writing, her sketchbooks are like small worlds full of discovery. Her work stands out for her extraordinary drawing skills, always with an emphasis on detail, proportion, and clean lines.

Margherita’s career in fashion—if we may say so—was creative but constrained. Fashion often involves balancing artistic expression with external demands, where designs need to transform into products. This, while rewarding, became a boundary for her. For Margherita, true creative freedom could only come once she moved placet fashion, into the realm of painting. She started with pencil and paper, then ink, and now works with oil paints on canvas. Passion, reinvention, and experimentation define her artistic journey, as she shifts from fashion sketches to capturing the beauty of nature.

Whether it’s the rush of images on a journey, the soft morning light filtering through the window, or the air moving through tree branches during a walk in the city, Margherita finds inspiration in nature. She is particularly captivated by trees. To her, trees are vital, not only as part of nature but as essential elements in our cities and daily lives —oxygen, life-giving air. Margherita dreams of bringing trees into the spaces where they are missing, like in our homes, for instance. She seeks to create a new aesthetic balance, one that perhaps also brings a sense of inner harmony. In each of her works, the tree represents something that can be placed where it doesn’t exist, adding a new dimension to the space. The tree symbolizes energy, with trunks and branches forming essential shapes for her compositions. Sometimes these shapes are solid and tangible, other times they are pure shadows projected onto a surface. The lines, at times delicate, are often fleeting, becoming the subject of the painting itself.

Describing Margherita’s creative process helps clarify her artistic philosophy. The first step is the observation of forms—branches and trunks—which she captures in detailed drawings in her sketchbook. These eventually evolve into quick sketches in ink on a moleskine, and then into her final oil paintings on canvas The final piece often begins with a monochromatic background, where textured brush strokes create the setting for the true subject of the work: the tree The branches and trunks intertwine extending with precision across the canvas. What starts as detailed lines gradually transforms into abstract patches, almost geometric in nature. While Margherita’s previous work was defined by elegance, structure, and calm, her painting now allows her to embrace imperfection. The spontaneity of the paint stains spreading across the canvas frees her from the confines of her earlier, more controlled style, opening up a new dimension in her work.

Margherita’s approach and philosophy are also influenced by the concept of Wabi Sabi, which embraces the beauty found in imperfection and transience. For her, the idea of “finding beauty in imperfection” is a guiding principle, a mantra that resonates deeply in her work, shaping her formal, pictorial, and thematic style.