Borgo Santo Pietro - Artist in residence
Borgo Santo Pietro - Artist in residence
Borgo Santo Pietro - Artist in residence
Borgo Santo Pietro - Artist in residence
Borgo Santo Pietro - Artist in residence
Borgo Santo Pietro - Artist in residence
Borgo Santo Pietro - Artist in residence
Borgo Santo Pietro - Artist in residence
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Artists in residence

Each month we welcome a new resident artist to set up a canvas or workbench in the grounds and offer art lessons to our guests. With heavenly gardens and an extensive estate to inspire that ‘inner artist’, why not stop by the art pavilion next to the lake for a chat or sign up for customised lessons? All supplies are included in the fee.

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Borgo Santo Pietro Artist Residence

April

Nebojsa Bogdanovic
Borgo Santo Pietro Artist Residence

May

Lena Lenček
Borgo Santo Pietro Artist Residence

June

Kathy Miller
Borgo Santo Pietro Artist Residence

July

Nick Todhunter
Borgo Santo Pietro Artist Residence

August

Nebojsa Bogdanovic
Borgo Santo Pietro Artist Residence

September

Marisa Curatolo
Borgo Santo Pietro Artist Residence

October

Ulrika Westenber

Nebojsa Bogdanovic

Born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, artist Nebojša Bogdanović graduated in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2004. Later, Nebojša obtained a specialization at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he has since taken up residence, inspired by its Renaissance beauty and splendour. With extensive experience from his work providing art therapy for the Italian Association for Assistance to Autistic Children, his life satisfaction comes from working in the field of teaching art to children and adults.


May

Lena Lenček

Lena Lenček grew up on the Adriatic in a family of writers, artists, and professors, who cultivated and shaped her dual passion for art and literature. A graduate of Barnard College and Harvard University, she is Professor of Russian and Humanities, an acclaimed author of 12 books, a published illustrator, and a translator, most recently of the Russian Pavel Muratov’s magisterial Images of Italy. Speaker of six languages, she is in constant demand as a public speaker and commentator on her wide-ranging areas of expertise. She has traveled the world, sketchbook in hand, to produce paintings and drawings that have been praised for their “technical mastery, expressive power, and ecstatic colors” and their “ability to distill the genius loci of place and to evoke in the viewer a mood of rapturous joy”.


Website: www.geochromes.org

April June

Kathy Miller

Using ink, watercolour, collage and camera, Kathy Miller abstracts natural and imagined landscapes, exploring and communicating the substance of the immaterial, of experience, and of transformation. Thirty years as a typographer and designer guide her hand while significant and profound life experiences provide a deep inner compass. A much-awarded creative director known for instinctive contextual thinking, imaginative discovery is at the heart of her practice. Miller explores what lies unseen in the liminal spaces of time between real and imagined, dreams and memories.


Website: www.kathymillerstudio.com

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Nicholas Todhunter

Nicholas Todhunter trained at Charles Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy—the only atelier in Europe dedicated to teaching traditional realism. Over the course of three years, he immersed himself in the study of drawing and painting, mastering the visual language and techniques of the great painters of past centuries. Following his studies in Florence, he moved to Venice, where he established himself as a portrait and landscape artist. Today, Nicholas divides his time between his home in Somerset and the timeless beauty of Venice, and exhibits his works throughout Europe and America.


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Nebojsa Bogdanovic

Born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, artist Nebojša Bogdanović graduated in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2004. Later, Nebojša obtained a specialization at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he has since taken up residence, inspired by its Renaissance beauty and splendour. With extensive experience from his work providing art therapy for the Italian Association for Assistance to Autistic Children, his life satisfaction comes from working in the field of teaching art to children and adults.


July September

Marisa Curatolo

Marisa is a multidisciplinary artist based in Canada. Her creative journey began in an unexpected place—the kitchens of Paris, where she worked as a train cook before going on to establish a renowned cooking school. Her transition from the culinary arts to painting has been a natural evolution of her desire to craft immersive, sensory experiences. Over time, her style has shifted from classic realism to a more expressive, dynamic, and playful approach, where bold colors and rich textures take center stage. Drawn to the beauty of nature, she finds her greatest inspiration in florals—an extension of her deep passion for gardening and floral design. Through her work, Marisa seeks to capture the fleeting essence of nature, encouraging viewers to pause, appreciate the moment, and reconnect with the world around them.


Website: www.marisaritaart.com

August October

Ulrika Westerberg

Classical violinist Ulrika Westerberg always dreamt of being a painter, but remained in the classical music business for thirty years. In the last few years she has switched careers by studying art at Swedish Academy of Realist Art. Ulrika now lives her dream and works everyday in oil and water colours, painting landscapes, still lifes and portraits.


Website: singulart.com/ulrika-westerberg

September

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