Eva Montanari is a brilliant Italian illustrator as well as an author. Additionally, she has published several books. She was under lock-down in Rimini Italy, due to the Covid-19 health crisis at the time of this post. Thankfully she and her family made it through that horrible time, and all is well now. As part of our Art Talk Series on our sister site EatTravelGo.com, I interviewed the artist – see below for the direct link.

Eva Montanari 

Rimini. by Eva Montanari, cm 68 x cm 47, acrylic, oil and pastels on rice paper

Montanari exhibited her work in a group show in January/February 2020 at the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. In honor of surreal filmmaker Frederic Fellini, the gallery presented “The Influence of Fellini: A Surreal 100th Birthday Celebration.”

Montanari, like Fellini, was born and raised in Rimini, Italy. “As a child growing up in Rimini,” said Montanari, “I used to watch Fellini’s films and my favorite was Amarcord. I studied his shots and way of telling a story but I would imagine my own version of how to tell the story. His figurative pictorial references are many and different.” Several of Montanari’s original illustrations from her children’s book, Federico were featured in the group show at CHG.

Find out more about the artist on our sister site EatTravelGo.com – CLICK HERE to read a Q & A with Montanari. Visit the artist’s website at http://www.evamontanari.com/