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"My best quality? Stubbornness. My worst flaw? Stubbornness."

Summary

Grazia Cavasino

Author, thirty-year watercolourist and passionate pattern artist with a knack for colours both in the analogic and digital world. Distressed by fibromyalgia and a severely herniated disc, forced to use a wrist brace on ther dominant hand or her sometimes her non-dominant hand since the beginning of 2022. Happily married, no children.

Education

High school diplomas

1983 & 1993
  • High school classic diploma 1983
    Liceo Classico, Pordenone, Italy

    I studied English, Latin, ancient Greek, Italian literature, history, philosophy and art history.

  • Primary school teaching certificate 1993
    Scuola magistrale, Sacile (PN), Italy

    I studied drawing, pedagogy and psychology, geography and rational mathematics.

Bachelor's degree

1991

Bachelor's degree in foreign languages
University of Bologna, Italy

I studied English language and literature (4 years), French language and literature (2 years), Italian literature, art history, art and literature criticism, critics history, poetics and rhetoric. My dissertation was about the relationship between painting and poetry in W. Blake's "Songs".

Corresponding secretary’s diploma in foreign languages

1995

SSIT, Bologna, Italy

I studied simultaneous and consecutive translation from and to English, written translation from and to English and Community law.

Professional Experience

"Iridea" workshop

1997 - 1998

(UD), Italy

I offered painted decorations on silk and fabric, watercolours and gouache paintings, frescoes and trompe-l'œil wall paintings, stained glass objects, and traditional and décor mosaics. More info

Teaching

1991 - 2022

Bologna and FVG

  • Temporary teacher for Italian children of immigrants.
  • Temporary teacher of English at secondary school.
  • Temporary teacher of English at primary school.
  • Tenured teacher of English at primary school.
  • Detached teacher for health reasons.

Others

1999 - 2004
  • Experience as a shop assistant in an ethnic furniture store.
  • Experience as a shop assistant in an organic food store.
  • Work experience as a proofreader in a graphic arts company.
  • Work experience as an editorial manager in a publishing company.

Creative job

2023 - present

Freelance author and artist.

Personal info

Interests and hobbies

  • Writing (more info).
  • Painting (more info).
  • Veil & belly dance.
  • Acting.
  • Modern singing.
  • Early music and opera singing.
  • Diachronic English and Italian linguistics.
  • Principles of non-conventional medicines.
  • Philosophy & non-cultual spirituality.