Roxana Sato - Biography

Roxana Sato ~ Biography

A Peruvian-born artist, Roxana began her career studying technical drawing as part of a Chemical Engineering degree at the University of Trujillo, Peru. In 2000, after two decades in Canada and the U.S., she immigrated to Melbourne, Australia. Australia’s beauty moved her to depict it through art, changing her life path irrevocably. Roxana was tutored by the late Aussie master painter Kevin Taylor. In 2002, she attended the Brisbane Institute of Art.
In 2003, she continued her studies in Europe at the Painting Studio of Montmiral in the South of France, and around Provence. In 2004 she returned to France on a painting trip through the south, and again the following year to sharpen her artistic skills in Paris and Bordeaux.
In 2006, she furthered her studies at the Scuola Leonardo da Vinci in Rome and Florence.

In the spring of 2007 she went back to Florence, and did plein air painting in Tuscany, Cinque Terre on the Mediterranean Coast, Venice, Milan and Lake Como. In Florence, she participated in an art program with the Ontario College of Art and Design, going on outings to museums and churches as part of art history classes and open studio sessions.
In 2010, Roxana began her digital and multimedia art studies at the prestigious OCAD University in Toronto, obtaining a certificate in ‘Art and Design Studio Skills’ in June 2013.
Her oils, acrylics, watercolours and pastels have exhibited at the Brighton Art Society, the Sandringham Art Centre and in private

The Louvre Museum, Paris - June 2015

showings in Australia, the U.S., Canada and other countries overseas. Roxana’s work is inspired by her world travels, and deeply influenced by the Impressionists. The majestic landscapes she depicts, largely painted on-site, transport the viewer to such far-flung places as the rough southern coast of Australia or the orange-tinted hills of Tuscany.



Painting in Umbria, Italy - June 2014


	"Art Basel" in Basel, Switzerland - June 2015

Her paintings are swathed in bold colours, infused with light and a sense of transcendence. When looking at her work, the viewer can’t help but feel the same joy and freedom Roxana experiences while creating.
She now spends most of the year in the charming lakeside town of Oakville, Ontario, and during the winter lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Her work was exhibited at various venues and galleries in Yorkville, Toronto and other Ontario galleries 2008-2009 as part of the group show ‘Bella Tuscany.’
She has exhibited with the AGO fellow ‘Artists of the Gallery’ (AOG) at the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th ‘Annual AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) Volunteers and Staff Art Show’ in the Spring of 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012 at the ‘Hangman’ Gallery in Leslieville (Toronto’s vibrant Queen East art scene neighborhood)
Roxana’s art was shown in Phoenix, Arizona at the ‘Mesa Arts Festival’ in 2012 and 2013.



	Plein Air painting in Ontario, Canada - September 2015

In 2014 Roxana went back to Italy for a Plein Air painting trip-workshop at La Romita School of Art in Terni. She was inspired to paint scenes from Rome and the Umbria region in the Heart of Italy. Roxana went off the beaten path to the enchanting Medieval villages on the hill tops like: Labro, San Gemini, Vallo di Nera, Spoleto, Todi, Assisi, Orvieto, and rolling green valleys, creating sketches and small paintings that will become studio paintings for a show in USA.
In September 2014, Roxana successfully exhibited in the "Memories of Umbria" show in Leesburg, Virginia, USA.
In the Summer of 2015, Roxana returned to Paris and then traveled through Bucharest, Transylvania, Austria & Switzerland on a Painting Journey.
She is currently working on large oil paintings that capture the amazing beauty of the Swiss landscapes and lakes.

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