At the end of the 50s Giovanna Bottai, a person of great artistic talent who recieved her diploma from the Institute of the ‘Belle Arti’ in Florence during the post-war years, married Sergio Bojola and thus became a member of a family which, for two generations, managed its own leather company.
It was during these years that she began to closely collaborate with the Bojola company. Over a period of more than twenty years, while she was contemporaneously working on her own paintings, she produced an outstanding number of designs for the bags’ material, the logo graphics and illustrations for publicity.
With her experience in painting and sculpture, received via specialisation courses when she was a pupil under Piero Vignozzi and Maurizio Martelli, Giovanna Bottai soon discovered the fascination of watercolours. She applied herself to this with great passion until it became her favourite technique. She began to reach high levels of artistic expression which has been manifested in the many collective and personal exhibitions she has had.
Being a member of the ‘Casa di Dante’ Artistic Circle in Florence, her passion for naturalistic and floral themes led her to paint for entire days on end in her garden at her house in Bellosguardo, a small hamlet overlooking Florence; and in the gardens of historical Florentine villas. Her watercolours of multicoloured irises painted in the ‘Iris Garden’ near Piazzale Michelangelo are well renown. (It is in this garden where the Florentine Council organises an event involving competition among the finest Tuscan gardeners dedicated to this flower – the symbol of the city of Florence).
Today her work as a watercolourist is still being carried out with the same passion as before and many of her works may be found in private collections in various parts of the world.
It was during these years that she began to closely collaborate with the Bojola company. Over a period of more than twenty years, while she was contemporaneously working on her own paintings, she produced an outstanding number of designs for the bags’ material, the logo graphics and illustrations for publicity.
With her experience in painting and sculpture, received via specialisation courses when she was a pupil under Piero Vignozzi and Maurizio Martelli, Giovanna Bottai soon discovered the fascination of watercolours. She applied herself to this with great passion until it became her favourite technique. She began to reach high levels of artistic expression which has been manifested in the many collective and personal exhibitions she has had.
Being a member of the ‘Casa di Dante’ Artistic Circle in Florence, her passion for naturalistic and floral themes led her to paint for entire days on end in her garden at her house in Bellosguardo, a small hamlet overlooking Florence; and in the gardens of historical Florentine villas. Her watercolours of multicoloured irises painted in the ‘Iris Garden’ near Piazzale Michelangelo are well renown. (It is in this garden where the Florentine Council organises an event involving competition among the finest Tuscan gardeners dedicated to this flower – the symbol of the city of Florence).
Today her work as a watercolourist is still being carried out with the same passion as before and many of her works may be found in private collections in various parts of the world.