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Lina Di Iorio, painter, poet, scene and costume designer, was born on the 29th June 1963 in Vicenza. She was educate at the Art School in Valdagno (Vicenza) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, where she attended the scenography course. Since 1985, while still a student, she began organising the scenery and costumes for various theatrical plays. During the Nineties due to serious health problems she was forced to suspend all work activities, but discovered an increased sensibility which brought on a shifting in her scale of values. In consequence, a deep thirst pushes her to search for the essence of the spirit towards other religions and cultures. Indian mysticism was of considerable importance, but most of all the enormous tolerance and sentiment of compassion which was transmitted to her during various encounters with Tibetan Lamas. Their teaching, assimilated with meditation, consented her to emphasise within herself the deep ethic and morale value of her work, which initially opened up two different areas to discovery; the first turned to pure spirit, concentrating on silence, on the search for the Self and on the conception of emptiness through this "Desert Sands" was developed; the second, turned outwards is a civil commitment dedicated to the interreligious dialogue and to peace in the world, materialized in the series of the "Doves". Since 2001 she has been devoting herself to exhibitions in Italy and abroad, where her individual themes are largely being appreciated. In 2002 she started on the “Drake’s Collection”, a series of works the painter meant to dedicate to the memory and music of Nick Drake, the English artist who died before his time at the beginnings of the Seventies. The year 2004 marked a turning-point in Lina Di Iorio’s artistic and human journey. She actually started the “Rivers” series, being it the rivers flowing out from the source of the soul. This work, which was inspired by Christian Fennesz’s composition “Rivers of sand”, had to be abruptly and painfully broken off, owing to the artist being stroke down by a very serious disease.After three years of artistic silence, Lina Di Iorio has just resumed painting recently. She’s now devoting herself to a new series, bearing an emblematic title: “Ponds Of Darkness”. In these new works the painter means to express her experience as both an artist and a woman, struggling with courage against her own serious illness.