Manuela valenti biography

By Alyice Edrich in Misc > Artist Interviews

Abstract and still life oil painter, Manuela Valenti, has been selling her art since the age of seven.

Having come by her artistic talents naturally, Valenti’s mother saw an opportunity to nurture her daughter’s talent and took full advantage of it.

Valenti was encouraged to paint on any surface available—whether that surface was on a seashell found at the beach, a piece of broken mirror, or a flattened cardboard box.

Then, at the age of 12, Valenti’s mother insisted that she try landscape oil paintings.

Over the next several years, Valenti would try her hand at several different activities, but it was painting that always called her back.

After college, unable to let go of the hold painting had on her, Valenti set out to become a full-time artist.

In 1999, she found an opportunity to show, promote, and sell her work online—and she hasn’t loo