Simona was born in Italy.

In 1975 she achieved a doctorate in Architecture at Florence University, where she subsequently taught as an assistant Professor for five years.

She always was interested and attracted by art, but she discovered her vocation and talent when she attended a course of drawing at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. From 1984 to 1987 she studied with Nerina Simi at her studio in Florence, one of the few remaining Atelier in Europe dedicated to the teaching of traditional art.  
After this she continued her preparation at the Cecil-Graves  Studio, where she completed her studies in 1991.

Since then, Simona has taught drawing and painting skills to a generation of young artists, who have been attracted by Florence’s reputation as a leading centre for the study of professional art.

She has carried out her teaching in her own studio, as well as at the Florence Academy of Art. Since the school opened in the early 90's, Simona has greatly contributed to the schools development and reputation  as a successful school of realistic art. She is the Director of the Academy’s Intensive Drawing Program.

Over the years, she has continued painting in her studio situated in an old monastery in the heart of Florence. Her works are to be found in private collections in Italy, France, England, Ireland, America and Mexico.
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Exhibitions

1996
- Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco
- Duncan Connelly Gallery, Atlanta
- Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida

1997
- Persone e Personaggi, Solo Exhibition, Lyceum Club International, Florence
- St. Peter’s Hall, London, UK
- Rosso Cimabro Association, Florence

1998
- Museo Italoamericano, San Francisco

1999
- Lyceum Club International, Florence

2002
- Westbeth Arts Gallery, New York
- ISB Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, USA
- Palazzetto Cenci, Rome

2003
- Realism Revisited, Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Germany
- Realism Revisited, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York
- Century Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
- Andreeva Portrait Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2005
- Alumni Exhibition, Corsini Family Stables, Florence

2006           
- Group Exhibition, Solomon Gallery, Dublin
- Alumni Exhibition, Corsini Family Stables, Florence
- Group Exhibition, Pitti Gallery,Florence

2007
- The Art of Seduction, Joint Exhibition, Gormley’s Fine Art,Dublin
- Alumni Exhibition, Corsini Family Stables, Florence

2008
- Group Exhibition, Lyceum Club International,Florence

2009
- Alumni Exhibition, Corsini Family Stables, Florence
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