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urban tide community of Hobsons Bay
IvanaPinaffo
Market Place in Assisi
oil on canvas board 2005, 61cm x 51cm
Ivana was born in Tripoli, Libya in 1952. In 1970 she migrated to Australia with her family in
search of a life of greater opportunity. She subsequently married and had two daughters and it
was not until the early 1990s that she rekindled her childhood interest in art. She began taking
lessons in painting, drawing and decorative and folk art, eventually becoming a teacher of
decorative painting herself.
She has been a member of the Hobsons Bay Art Society for five years and in 2002 won First
Prize at one of the local exhibitions. She considers herself an emerging artist because her
passion and ever growing knowledge gives her the desire to share her work with others.
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Style comes from my heart and the hunger to improve keeps growing. My many trips to Italy
have inflamed a belated passion for observing and painting European scenes.