I was born in 1963 in a little town in the north of Italy, Fagnano Olona, not far from Milan, close to woods, lakes, hills, and in close view of the Alps, that allowed me to live a sort of wild life like the stories of "Tom Sawyer", my preferred childhood book.

Since when I could stand up alone, I have been using pencils and colours; in the beginning to paint my happy parents’ house and then, I have graduated from a local art high-school and I've been working as a freehand illustrator since 1984.

Initially I worked for advertising studios, making hyper-realistic illustrations, and then for greetings and wrapping paper companies. In the last ten years I've been doing illustrations and stories for children books and have done more than 50 children books.

Most of them are translated in various languages. Last year I had a personal exhibition with original artworks that I did made with airbrush and mixed techniques, same as I used to print children books, posters and puzzles.