Paola Farina was born in Verona in 1967. After graduating from the artistic high school, she attended the two-year course of decorative arts at the “Cignaroli” Academy of Fine Arts in Verona, then taking part in a project as part of the Exchange Program for Young Workers in the Community European, concerning the maintenance restoration of the Lusitanian artistic heritage which took place in the city of Lisbon in Portugal. In the aforementioned internship she deals with the restoration of external wall decorations located in different gardens of important ancient residences of the place while attending the Centro Europeu de Línguas at the same time.

In Rome Paola Farina attended courses in decorative arts of fake marbles and trompe l’oeil at the Accademia del Superfluo, then specializing in Brussels at the Institut Superieur de Peinture van der Kelen et Logelain in decoration techniques related to the imitation of woods and marbles, semi-precious stones, drawing course on perspective, decorative panels such as friezes and ceilings in different styles as well as patinas and gilding, fake stuccos and the study, planning and realization of trompe l’oeil.

Paola Farina collaborated with the decorator Antonio Malleo in Rome and Cairo, Egypt, painting a series of interior decorations with themed wall paintings, with tattered, grotesque and fake stucco techniques and door and cupboard decorations.

She also collaborates with M. and G. Girelli Bruni in the field of maintenance restoration and decorations of fake stucco on the walls and ceilings of historic residences and large hotels in northern Italy.

During her professional career Paola Farina has designed and created many themed trompe l’oeil, decorative panels and thematic paintings on wooden supports, decorations on walls and ceilings, creation of fake marble, fake stucco. As an interior decorator, she has carried out shooting and maintenance restorations in some prestigious residences and hotels

Paola Farina also deals with the graphic design of wine labels and the creation of graphic materials for advertising of some prestigious Chianti wineries. As well as the creation of paper maps of farms known as “cabreia”. She currently resides in Florence, and has opened a decorative arts atelier, where she carries out her professional activity.