Daniela Astone is an Italian painter born in Pisa in 1980.
“I discovered my passion for drawing and painting at a very young age, and began nourishing and cultivating my craft early on.”
Daniela Astone grew up in the coastal town of Porto Santo Stefano, and she began studing art at the age of 14 in the High School of Arts in Grosseto, and after graduating in 1998 she moved to Florence to study Illustration at the international school of comix.
At the age of 21, Daniela Astone decided to change direction and re-start studying drawing and painting from life at The Florence Academy of Art under the direction of Daniel Graves, and she began to teach younger students in her second year, graduating in 2004 with the end of the year award.
Daniela Astone had her first solo show at the Ann Long Fine Art Gallery in Charleston in 2005, and she built up a studio in the Tuscany countryside, and in 2013 she became the director of the intermediate program at The Florence Academy of Art, recieving an honorable mention from the Mod Portrait award in Spain.
Daniela Astone’s work has exhibited internationally, and in 2016 it became part of the permanent collection of MACS, the Contemporary Art Museum in Sicily, and she has collaborated with Tiac in China and Live And Learn in Thailand, teaching workshops in her studio-house in Chianti and around the world.
- Born in Pisa, Italy, in 1980.
- She studied at The Florence Academy of Art under Daniel Graves.
- She won the Best Painting of the Year award in 2004.
- She is a principal teacher at The Florence Academy of Art.
- Her work is in the permanent collection of MACS in Sicily.
Daniela Astone participated in the exhibition Realism Revisited at the Panorama Museum in Germany in 2003, and in 2006 she participated in The Florence Academy of Art Masters at Ettinger Gallery in New York, and she shows regularly with Ann Long Fine Arts Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina.
Daniela Astone currently teaches at The Florence Academy of Art in Florence and resides in the nearby countryside, and she continues to develop her artistic practice, exploring the themes of still life, landscape, and the human figure with a focus on technical mastery and emotional depth.
Art Category Fact: The Florence Academy of Art is a prestigious institution dedicated to the training of artists in the classical tradition, founded in 1991 by Daniel Graves, and it emphasizes rigorous drawing and painting techniques based on the principles of the 19th-century French atelier system, with a focus on realism and the study of the human figure.
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” — Edgar Degas