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Valentina was born and educated in Hilversum (NL) . Additional studies in painting and art therapy at the Vrije Kunstacademie (Amsterdam) and trained as a fashion designer too at the Académie Charles- Montagne ( Amsterdam).
Other studies include:
- Training as Kunstpedagogin - Art in the disability field ( Agogis / INSOS , Zurich )
- Training in systemic consulting with difficulties in childhood and adolescence ( Systemic seminar Heidelberg, Dr. Helmut Bonney )
- printing and monotype (Druckatelier Tom Blaess , Berne)
- Life Drawing ( University of Applied Sciences Bern, Bruno Cerf )
- Ceramics ( Pierrette Fishermen Schönenwerd )
- Intensive Painting studios with Bernhard Vogel, Kurt Panzenberger , Hermann Kremmsmayer
- Training at the Centre for Conscious lifestyle , Clare Harder, Nussbaumen
General Painting courses:
- Netherlands Vlieland, Texel Amsterdam
- United States: New York, San Francisco , New Mexico, Nevada
- England : South Wales, London
- France : Paris , Provence
- Italy: Tuscany , Rome, Piedmont , Abruzzo , Apulia , Sicily, Liguria
- Spain : Madrid, Barcelona , Granada, Mallorca
- Morocco : Marrakech
- Tunisia: Djerba
Exhibitions
A selection:
- Hilversum (NL), Galerie De Vaart , 1995
- Amsterdam ( NL ), gallery het luikje , 1996
- Scuol Engiadina , 1998
- Egerkingen (Sw), Old Mill , 1999
- Aarburg (Ger), Bear Gallery , 2000
- Oensingen (Swiss) Hotel Lindemann , 2000
- Gwatt Centre , 2003
- Härkingen , regular group exhibition " 2012
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