This work aimed to leave me completely free for the ideation and creation of an illustrated encyclopedia that would collect as many specimens of flora and fauna of the Biological Station. I worked closely with students and researchers at the station for 2 months in the summer before continuing my work remotely. This work experience has certainly improved my knowledge and communication in the English language.

I worked for Lamole di Lamole to developed social media contents focused on food and nature. This project was part of a bigger restyling. During this period of time I created several drafts such as posts and stories, however this part of for the final project wasn’t approved from the main company.

The six-month internship at LibriLiberi Editore consisted of the ideation and transposition of a fiction book into an illustrated book for which all classmates had to collaborate. The result is a published book and an exhibition inaugurated in June 2023. The book is called “Il racconto della bambina di Pian D’Albero”. This experience has confirmed my ability to manage teamwork and respect deadlines and work schedules.

In 2022, I had the opportunity to team up with Montelio winery’s staff. The goal of this collaboration was restyling and developing different wine’s labels.

As a photographer I worked on the catalogue for Massimo Pica. In this experience I took pictures and retouched them using different softwares like Photoshop and Camera Raw.

I worked for the scientific magazine, “Uccelli d’Italia” (“Birds of Italy”), as a scientific illustrator for the annual volume. During that employment period, I illustrated two scientific articles on ornithology.

At the end of September 2023, I graduated with honors in Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, with a thesis based on ethnobotanical studies between fruit and vegetables over the centuries. With this project, I collected a lot of scientific papers to have a big picture. The research is a huge part of my method to have a truly scientific illustration. In fact, I always like to put a lot of effort into research itself.

For my Bachelor’s thesis focus on the representation of birds and bees’ ultraviolet vision, I had the opportunity to have an interview with the American illustrator John Miur Laws. That experience exposed me to the reality of naturalistic illustration depicted in American scientific illustrations. The American method for documenting scientific illustration is a respectful reality for the artists and for the study of nature. I connected with this style and approach of scientific illustration and found it useful and consistent with my views for engaging with natural art.

In June 2023, I was shortlisted in the 65 finalists for the Young Botanical Competition at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery in London. The subject in which I participated is an illustration of the Southern Magnolia flower. In the drawing, I highlighted a part of the flower to show how the bees’ vision could be using different colors.