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About Me
MARIA DEANGELO
Maria DeAngelo was born May 19, 1961, in Pensacola Florida. Maria’s father was in the Navy and stationed in Spain where he met her mother. They married in 1959 and had three children. She is the middle child with an older brother born in Spain and a younger sister born in Italy.
Her father left the Navy when she was about 6 years old, and they settled in Illinois. Maria attended to college at Illinois State University where she studied education and graduated in 1983 with a BS in education. She lived most of her adult life in Naperville, Illinois where she raised her four children, one daughter and three sons. While raising her 4 children She decided teaching was not for her and went back to school in 1996 to become an Interior Designer. In 2001 Maria started her Interior design Business “Designing Interiors Inc.” the business flourished for 21-year success when she decided to retire in October of 2022 and moved to Naples Florida as a full-time resident with her now husband Tom DeAngelo.
There has always been a love for art by Maria, she would often say “when I retire, I want to start painting” Fast forward during the Pandemic in 2020 she decided to learn to paint with all the extra time she was given.
Learning to paint through many online tutorials, and a lot of experimenting with various mediums, when she discovered oil painting, and it became her passion. Maria’s painting signature is Mimi, which is the name her only Grandchild (Kaitlyn) gave her. Now officially retired, Maria paints just about every day. Her paintings are mainly influenced by her Florida surroundings, beach life, flowers, and animals of Florida. She is captivated by light and shadows cast on nature as well as people and things and gets her inspiration for her paintings when she sees this in real life.
