Deruta is the place where I was born, a town famous in the world for its significant ceramics production. I believe nothing like this exists in any other parts of the world: there are workshops everywhere in town in every single narrow corner. There are about 200 of them over a population of about 5,000 inhabitants in the heart of the Deruta district.
I decided to stop here under the attentive and helpful guidance of my father, a ceramics master and I have tried to learn during my education all the secrets of this art from everybody I have met: secrets and ancient techniques passed on from one generation to the other with the a thousand-year art passion.
In the ’90s I decided to go deep into all of the techniques in the different cycles of the Deruta ceramics without leaving out any of them. As a consequence I went back to the most ancient processes of the ceramics tradition and came back to nowadays.
This journey has carried me away from the idea of ceramics as a minor art. It also allowed me to turn from a  young applicant artisan to a technique researcher and an artist.
The most important change that has accelerated my passion and devotion to art happened in 1998 when I was attending my third year in Art School. I received a scholarship and they sent me to the Royal Art Academy of  Den Haag (Holland).
During the first months I immersed myself in all sorts of experiences: conceptual, abstract, informal, minimalist arts which meant to me some sort of  torment that gave birth to thoughts  that during these years have come to maturity. These ideas brought me to the belief that what the traditional world had taught me could be translated into an innovative and contemporary interpretation.
Nowadays (2008) I am the director of a private ceramic art school in Deruta called “Romano Ranieri Art School”  and one of the founders in 2001. I am currently coordinator of the C.L.S. group (Free Ceramic Research Artists) that I founded in 1997 along with other artists and I am art consultant for the festival of theatre, dance and visual arts in Zdarzenia, Poland.