There was nothing unusual in the appearance of Alessandra Pisi but actually she has one distinction that is rarely encountered - she was born at the age of twenty-five and entered the world with a memory but without personal experience to account for it. She was brought up in Worthing and Brighton with her younger brother and sister. They were the children of an Italian-French-German mother who was brought up in Czechoslovakia and a Canadian father from the Prairies of Saskatchewan, who was of Spanish-Sephardic, Dutch, Scot and Native Indian origin [through Ots-Toch, a Mohawk princess] With such a mixed parentage Alessandra learnt Italian, French and Spanish from an early age. She was accepted by London University to study French but realised she could make a living from what had previously been a hobby, art, so she enrolled at St. Martin's School of Art. Her paintings are landscapes of marks and transparency.

"My work is trees from a hillside in the fog, the pine trees of Rome, reflections in water, stories and codes, Cinecitta, films, the sixties, movement through dimensions, playful storytelling, rememberance and regret, loves and whispers, laughter and drinking, GRAPPA and the aroma of coffee and urine, torrential rain and mist, driving on backroads, falling asleep under the stars, the simple innocence of a child's eye."

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bn11 [Sussex Gallery of Modern Art] confirms the opening of the galleries second show on the 22nd of February [Private View 4pm-6pm] running until 13th of March. Opening times : Monday-Saturday 10-4 Other times by arrangement. Telephone 01903 533 834 East Tower, Beachparade, Splashpoint, off Brighton Road, BN11

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