Mary de Piro

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Mary de Piro is a Maltese artist (born in Valletta, 1946).^[1]

She studied art at a young age while at boarding school at Badia a Ripoli in Florence and later at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. Her first exhibition was held in Wisconsin, in the course of a stay in the United States. Her first solo exhibition in Malta brought her critical acclaim owing to the confidence of her brushwork and choice of large format canvases. This led to commissions from corporate patrons, through curator Richard England.^[2] In 1975 she moved to the UK, where she raised a family while continuing to paint, moving into the field of portraiture and sacred art.^[3] Over the years she mainly participated in collective exhibitions in the England, Malta, and Italy. Mary de Piro is best known for her landscape paintings, particularly those which evoke the Mediterranean light of the Maltese countryside.^[4]