Marta Motti

Born in Prato in 1991, I began studying fashion and costume in 2005 at the Montemurlo art institute, now Brunelleschi art school. After graduating, I enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in the sculpture course, where the main teacher Stefano Patti introduced me to the study of portraiture and nudes from life.

After my bachelor's 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 remained there to work on both private and ecclesiastical commissions and, in the same period, I came into contact with the Artour-O association which gave me the opportunity to exhibit both in Italy and Malta.

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

In 2019 I closed my Florentine studio to join the painter and now husband Jonathan Davis in Ontario, Canada, where we remained for six months during the pandemic. We then decided to move to Italy to try to buy a house and open our 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 "Studio Peregrino", a project through which we commit 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.

Since September 2023 we have been living and working in Monte San Savino, Arezzo.