Emily Kalina is an artist living in Boston, Massachusetts. She derives her inspiration for print and apparel designs from the natural world, in particular the botanical. Kalina earned her degree in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), in 2003, and has been selling and exhibiting her paintings in galleries in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and California in her signature style of layered, textured, patterned watercolors. She spent 2008 in Florence, Italy absorbing the art and culture and deepening the range and complexities of her own work in the midst of Italy’s living history of master artisans. Her newest work reflects the rich texture of Italian light and incorporates the textures of the buildings, the materials and aesthetics of the Tuscan region, and the land itself. Presently Kalina paints and designs for fabric and other surfaces out of her studio in Boston, Mass.