Simona Mereu (1969, Rome, Italy) is a self taught artist who mainly works with painting. Born and raised in Rome she showed an appreciation and interest in art from an early age. She painted her first portrait at the age of six and made her first sculpture at the age of eleven. At the age of nine she participated successfully to a collective art exhibition in Rome, Via Margutta. She grew up in one of the most beautiful areas of Rome, Trastevere where as a child she used to spend her afternoons with the artist Catullo Palmieri, an old family friend. She...more