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Gianna Marino was born in San Francisco and spent her early years galloping horses through Golden Gate Park. Her explorations expanded after graduating from high school and in order to afford her many journeys, Gianna had several jobs at once: apprenticing a muralist, a jewelry designer, a product designer and driving horse carriages through the park. Between projects and then college, Gianna visited West, East and North Africa, India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Bhutan, China, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Noumea, crewed on sailboats in Mexico and the Caribbean and lived in Europe for a time. At work, Gianna became known as “Boomerang”.
After several years of designing toys in a corporate box with no windows, Gianna left for good and began painting, starting with the chocolate-textured gouache, then turned to mixed media for further exploration. |
| Gianna has written and illustrated numerous articles for travel and leisure magazines. Her first children’s book, Zoopa (Chronicle Books, 2005) was placed on the prestigious Texas 2x2 list and was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Children's Literature as one of the best works by a northern California author published in 2005. Her next book, One Too Many (Chronicle Books, 2010) will be out in the spring. |
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