Miriam Pertegato

Miriam Pertegato is an Italian painter born in Vicenza in 1978, who lives and works in Trieste and Venice. She trained in painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and now teaches painting there. She spent October to December 2010 as a resident at KulttuuriKauppila in Ii, Finland, where she also held the solo show 'Between Me and Ii' at the KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre in 2010. Her work centres on nature and the cycle of growth and decay, often made with tempera, watercolour and ink on paper.