 In the first years of the 1970s she moved to Florence where she trained in xylographic (woodcut) technique at the studio of Pietro Parigi.During her travels to Germany, Belgium and Holland she deepened her knowledge of the Expressionists.Settling in Tuscany, she became fascinated with the painters of the Scuola Senese and with the Romanesque art present in the medieval churches and abbeys scattered throughout the Tuscan countryside.