Giovanni Novara has been painting forever, even though this artistic vein was set aside for years in favor of his writing as a journalist for Italian dailies. He is an accomplished carver as well, and thanks to this passion he has been making a name for himself in Key West,
Florida, where he currently lives and works.
With a variety of media he loves to capture sensations suggested by nature or by everyday objects and emotions. Novara attempts to evoke memories about real things. He is a fierce promoter of "pure" drawing, without embellishment, strictly respectful of perspective and
proportion, and loves carving, especially on wood and linoleum, a passion he cultivated for years as a self taught art, and later perfected at the "Bottega del Tintoretto" in Venice.
Novara is an art teacher at the local Montessori School. He has taught printmaking classes at the local Art Museum for adults and children alike.