About Maria Luisa Bevivino

Short Biography

Maria Luisa Bevivino was born in Catanzaro, Italy, in 1985. The first part of her life was shaped by social sciences, international cooperation projects and travels across Africa, a path that led her to complete a PhD in 2015.
In 2017, after visiting an exhibition by painter Maxmilian Ciccone, she was deeply struck by the strength of his work. From 2018 onwards, she began attending his drawing and painting courses at Maxmilian Ciccone’s Fine Art Studio and Gallery in Florence. Here, she continues refining her practice to this day, through consistent work, observation from life and plein air painting. A mother of three, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro in 2020, graduating in Painting in March 2024.

Style

Her painting is rooted in a realist and representational language, with a strong admiration for nineteenth-century painting and for the discipline of traditional studio practice. She is particularly interested in atmosphere, structure, light and the quiet intensity that can emerge from close observation.
Alongside portraits, still life and landscape, she has become increasingly drawn to sporting subjects and to British rural heritage, especially scenes in which dogs, landscape and field tradition come together. She seeks to honour the bond between handler and dog, reflecting in each work the same discipline, care and attention to detail that lie at the heart of the sporting heritage world.