Nadia is an Italian born married to a Japanese and worked for UNESCO. After retiring from the UN she decided to go into art. She was influenced by her mother's artistic talents that she acquired in Tuscany when she was young. Nadia worked and studied with Japanese artist for over 30 years.

Nadia has somehow retired from just Japanese arts and has started painting on silk only a year ago from 8 10 hours a day. She is trying to combine her Italian background with the Japanese art that she has mastered through the years. She has had 2 exhibits in 2009.One at the Greenbelt Courthouse, where together with 40 other silk painters put up a SPIN show