Connecticut, USA. 2007 / 2010 / 2012 / 2015 / 2018 We met Sandra first and, together, we forged a long-standing collaboration comprising several artistic residencies and classes for numerous groups of professional painters and students from the United States. On Sandra's most recent stay, we met Susan. The twin sisters have devoted themselves to the two arts: painting for Sandra and sculpture for Susan; their father had encouraged their artistic education by

South Dakota, USA 2010 / 2021 Anna Youngers returned to Il Palmerino after exactly eleven years. It was an emblematic return, as she found herself coming 'full circle' as far as her artistic career was concerned. As Anna reminded us in a presentation she gave for Il Palmerino's live-in community, she began her training as an academic artist with a profound knowledge of the technique of drawing, light and form. She would later strive to perfect colour a