Roberto Lombardi is an internationally recognized landscape painter. Born in Italy, Lombardi studied painting at an early age and was influenced by his father, also a landscape painter. Lombardi continued his education traveling throughout Europe, painting and studying at several institutions and receiving a graduate degree in Paris. Lombardi notes that his inspiration is derived from the beauty of landscape and the inherent color and light in our natural environment. He prefers to work on site, sketching his garden settings and balcony scenes in charcoal before painstakingly recreating the final painting in vibrant oils in his countryside studio. Lombardi still travels extensively and shows his work in exhibitions across Europe and the United States.