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Italian painter Bruno Vallino was born in Locana Canavese on 18th May He lives and works in San Germano Chisone, (TO) Italy He lost his father while still a child and his family were compelled lo move to Pinerolo (Piedmont). Here Bruno attendees the local boarding school where he remained for nine years. "I was in third year - he says - when the painter Beretta did Vigone was called on to restore the Chapel. His art enchanted me and I spent all my spare lime watching him and dreaming. How I would like to he like that painter, I thought. The passion for air had been lit within me and when the following year there was a regional drawing competition for the elementary school l took part in it with great excitement. We were asked to illustrate an episode from the book "Cuore". I drew the story of the Sardinian Tambourine and then anxiously waited for the result. When at last discovered that they had chosen my drawing, I felt like one of the "greats". And so this was my artistic beginning. Unfortunately as very often happens in life. The need to make a living meant he had to choose an education that would offer him the chance of a job and as Bruno could not afford to go to art school he entrolled at a technical college. The drawing teacher, however, noticed him and taught him the elementary techniques of drawing and painting and encouraged him to enrol at the Academia Artistic (Art Academy). On leaving school, Bruno finds a job as an apprentice decorator while his heart and soul are bound to painting. So in his spare time he refines his art. Initially he copies postcards, and then he reproduces the great master such as Degas,Pissarro,Monet and Van Gogh.