Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at 5.30 p.m. Vanessa Nicolson is an author and journalist, and a former art historian. Her most recent book, Angels of Mud, is a multi-generational novel set in London's Italian/Irish neighborhood of Clerkenwell in the aftermath of World War Two and Florence at the time of the 1966 Flood.

Lawyer, Engineer and Designer. At Il Palmerino, Canadian artist Kim Ren is not seen as an engineer or a lawyer –but as a designer. Her time in Florence allowed her to fully embrace a lifelong facet of her identity that has accompanied her since childhood. As a child, Kim found delight in making things with her hands—her earliest memory of this being the afternoon she stitched a dining table cushion under her mother’s guidance. The joy of that small creation lingered with her,

September 25 and 26, 2026. An immersive storytelling experience of the tale adapted by Yūichi Kimura.

Australian artist Angelica Rowe came to Italy, specifically the Palmerino for a change of pace. After working in the fast past ad agency world, she was burnt out. Angelica had intended to come to Florence back in 2020 for a three month Design Master Workshop. However, Covid-19 put her plans on hold. Five years later her partner encouraged her to fulfill her Italian dreams. Rowe studied Design and Commercial Art at Griffith College of Art and at CATC in Brisbane, Australia

From September 13, 2025 to December 16, 2025.

United Kingdom. July, 2025 In July 2025, British visual artist and filmmaker Jerusha West spent 6 weeks in residence at Palmerino. For Jerusha, it was a moment of stillness and space, a pause from the intensity of city life in London, and a chance to reconnect with her multidisciplinary practice in a calm and creative setting. Jerusha began her formal art education with a Foundation course at Central Saint Martins, before going on to study at The Slade School of Fine Art (UCL