Stefania
Puntaroli

Stefania Puntaroli was born in Prato in 1972. She graduated from the Art School of Pistoia and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence where she specialized in Visual Arts and Performing Arts. She also specialized in printmaking at the International School of Graphics: 'Il Bisonte'.

Since 1995 she has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions,  she has taken part in Biennial and Triennial Graphic Design Exhibitions and in International Painting and Sculpture Symposiums. Her artworks are present in public and private collections both in Italy and abroad.

Stefania Puntaroli's cosmic vision is broad, versatile and polyhedral, passes from drawing to painting, from printmaking to performance. In her research ranges from inventive subjects that narrate a fantastic and surreal world through images to themes inspired by the observation of natural and scientific events.  

Events that each time arouse her interest, as she experiments with different techniques and materials in 

a constant question of various expressive languages.

Thanks to a refined and elegant graphic sign acquired in the long practice of printmaking and drawing, Stefania carves the details, the minimal features that make each work unique and unrepeatable.

The main source of inspiration for the artist are travel, meditation and teaching. From 2020, she begins the publication of illustrated stories, as an independent publisher, under the pseudonym of Vanessa Io.