La grande estate. Impressions of a Tuscan summer

This book springs from a summer experiment and experience in Tuscany. It marks the beginning of an editorial collaboration with Mutty of Castiglione delle Stiviere, whose bookstore, in the warmer months, moves to Castagneto Carducci on the hills that overlook the sea. Olimpia Zagnoli, invited by Mutty to hold a summer workshop there, accepted the challenge to explore a new expressive territory: the landscape. The volume reveals her entire creative process, from her precise and subtle observations and dissections of perceived reality - using techniques that are new for her - to the capsizing of colors and the re-construction of the landscapes with her signature style to transmitting a vision of that transformed reality.

Readers can follow the artist's research and process - from the sketches to the digital illustrations to Olimpia's delightful text - to appreciate and understand her extraordinary work. A novelty within a novelty, this book shares the point of view one of the most renowned Italian illustrators and is a must-have for illustrators and aficionados alike: new subject matter, new techniques, new approach. In the sign of an unmistakable style, the landscape featured here is seen through the big, round glasses of Olimpia Zagnoli.