Sharleen Maglione, born in a small village just outside Rome, in Italy, always had a restless spirit and a passionate soul.

 

She left her grandparents' home at eighteen, right after her diploma in technical home design, and attended University, before the faculty of Architecture in Rome, then finishing her studies in her hometown in the field of liberal arts (history, literature, museology, art).

 

As she had to learn how to rise from ashes, she felt that little village too small for her heart, and she started to travel and explore Europe, Canada, and United States. At first, with shorter journeys and backpacking (even weeks alone in the woods of Virginia on the Appalachian Trail).

 

Then, more and more leaving behind everything to be ready to start her live abroad. At the end of a trip across the US on the old Route 66, heading West like a pioneer, she attributed a “nomen omen” to the city of Phoenix, Arizona, where she settled, spending over a year developing her art, among painting, sculpting, writing and photography.