Simona Trozzi
Simona has always been interested in the world of images since she was a child. She has always had a huge interest in narrative and fantastic illustration, and grew up looking through the illustrated books of Brian Froud and Alan Lee, and dreaming in front of the paper covers of the old LP's of progressive and hard rock. She has begun to have a more concrete relation with visual communication and illustration. In1986, she enrolled for a illustration course at the European Institute of Design in Rome. Completing her studies with success in 1989, she started her career doing small advertising and editorial works for local bureaus. After a short time, in 1990, she began working with the Marziali's office.
Working with Sandra Marziali she created works destined for the publishing trade (Corriere dello Sport, Il Mondiale, Playboy, etc.) and for advertising (Hertz, Esso, Renault, Peugeot, Telecom, Enel, Algida, Camel, Peroni, Perugina, Bahlsen, TMC, Coop, Invicta, Sperlari, Stefanel, Canguro, etc.). In the meantime, even in 1990, she started to interest herself in custom motor-cycles and others, moved by a particularly inclination for decoration, as well as a big interest for the fantastic subjects that in those years were widely used. In the first years of 1990, in Italy, the more popular subjects were biomechanic, and not fantasy. Since 1994 she has frequented the most important happenings of the motor-cycle world, gaining acknowledgements (1st prize at the Aerografic Convention at the Biker Fest in 1995; prize "Best Airbrush" at the Motley Bike Show in 2000; prize "Best in Show" at the Motley Bike Show in 2001) and the attention from some magazines of this sector that publish articles of her works ("Motociclismo" august 1994; "Bikers Life" January 1996; "Bikers Life" May 1996; "Freeway" April 1997; "Tuttomoto" August 1996; "Bikers Life" August 1998; "Airbrush Art Magazine" n° 39; "Freeway" September 2004; "Kustom" n° 42 Oct/Nov. 2005).
Simona uses various techniques: pencils, acrylics, water-colours, airbrush, oil, and in recent years she has begun using digital, flanking it with traditional techniques. Her passion, and so the subject that she prefers to represent, is fantasy and horror. This passion often becomes the subject of her personal pictures.
