“It’s Not What You Look at That Matters. It’s What You See”
Maria Francesca Starrabba, landscape architect, Art history teacher, painter and illustrator, dedicates her time to drawing everyday and loves to share her perception of life by searching for it’s beauty and in particolar she prefers gardens during he runusual urban journeys. Her method consists in drawing on the spot observing the places and getting in tune with them, capturing all the elements that she will later develop into a more meditated phase, obtaining International recognition.
“At the center of my illustrated itineraries is a sunny, Mediterranean Sicily, a place of legendary myths and evidence of a lost world that resurfaces between fantasy and memory, imagination and history.”
The opinion of the Governance
Maria Francesca Starrabba is a multifaceted artist with a complex and complete cultural background. She has a taste for proportions and harmony from the architect; a predilection for delicate chromatics from the painter; a love for telling the story – not in words but with images – of the history of a territory through corners, landscapes, monuments and works of art that best interpret its soul from the art history teacher. From her refined water colors comes out an “unusual Palermo”, the “travel notebooks” and all her works tran sport us in an atmosphere that is certainly Sicilian, very recognizable, but at the same time universal, like the concept of `Beauty’itself.
Eliana Calandra, Madrina of Traditions
