It may be the granddaughter of Audrey Hepburn, but Emma Ferrer is not a Nopo child.
Unlike most celebrities, the 30-year-old who was born 18 months after the death of her famous grandmother-she avoided attention, spending her days painting at her home in Tuscany, Italy.
The underestimated artist has been honoring her craft for more than a decade, working quietly for paintings for her first single show, “The Scapgoat”, now in contemporary Sapar in Tribeca.
“I’m extremely introverted and dedicated,” Ferrer Post told this week. “I’m not a party person or a social person, so I just like to live in this very beautiful, rural, isolated place with my dogs and boyfriends.”
Ferrer met her boyfriend, Italian artist Thomas Pucci, in a scene that could have been abducted by one of her grandmother’s miraculous Roma.
In 2021, shortly after he moved to the Tuscan Alps Apuan, Ferrer found himself lost while walking in the woods.
“Basically. I could have died – they sent search and salvation parties to me,” she explained. “Fortunately I found my neighbors before the search and salvation parties found me, but in a way the media was informed of the Audrey Hepburn’s granddaughter being lost in the woods.
“Someone sent my boyfriend the article being like,“ This girl in your village was lost. “So he wrote me on Instagram and it was like, ‘I know all the trails of the walk.’ “
Ferrer – whose father is the oldest of the two sons of Hepburn – born in Switzerland and spent her childhood between Italy and Los Angeles.
In Tinsseltown, she attended the intersection, the infamous “Nepo Baby School”, where celebs like Gwyneth Paltrow, Lebron James, Meg Ryan and Kate Hudson have all sent their offspring.
“I was really young when I lived in LA, but you think the intricate Hollywood effect and everything that is about … Even the type of social dynamics,” Ferrer recalled, expressing an early disgust for Fame.
She completed her education in Italy, studied at the prestigious Florence’s art academy, and was decomposed in New York City to pursue her passion for painting.
In 2014, Ferrer was tracked by the editor of Haper’s Bazear Glenda Bailey, who placed him on the cover of that year’s publication in September.
The spray shoot gained a buzz around the world, with Hepburn’s long fans who were noticing Ferrer’s physical similarities with her famous grandmother.
With her ancestry in Hollywood and her incomprehensible beauty, Ferrer seemed ready for a life in the spotlight – but she reduced the strong interest from the public in general.
Instead, Ferrer spent the early twenties just like any other young creator called in the city.
She worked in various Big Apple galleries, living modestly – and with roommates – dancing between Brooklyn, Manhattan and New Jersey.
“I always wanted that excitement of New York,” Ferrer Post told. “I lived on the upper side of the East, in Jersey City, in Bushwick, Fort Greene, The East Village. I stayed in the reserve rooms. I lived all over.”
After the hit of the Covid Pandemia, the artist moved to Italy again, taking the residence in a remote Tuscan village.
“Painting was always my ultimate goal,” she explained. “When I returned to Italy during the pandemia everything slowly slowed … I really breathed to devote myself to my practice … I paint every day, and that’s a lot of my life now.”
Ferrer does not rinse when it comes to discussing the label “Nepo Baby”, admitting that she knows that the initial interest in her work is ignited by her hepburn connection.
“I am extremely accepting the fact that people are interested in me because of who my grandmother is, and I don’t think there is any way about it, nor would I ever want to hide it,” she said.
“I think the only thing I can do in my power is to continue to work really, really hard … I’m extremely serious about my work and my practice.”
Indeed, Ferrer has won plaudits for her “redemption”, her first solo exhibition described as a “annoying work body that looks at complex and fragile relationships between man, animal and nature”.
“I have always been extremely in love with the aesthetics of Christianity,” she told the post, saying the collection was inspired by her Tuscan surroundings. “I see it beautiful and moving … especially here in Italy, where it is rooted in person and culture.”
Making Ferrer’s first solo show even sweeter is the fact that she worked in contemporary Sapar while living in New York.
“It’s been a beautiful moment with full circle,” she excited. “I always envy the artists who were professionals and represented by the gallery, and I was just a kind of hustle and painting by the side. And now, 10 years later, having a show has really been, really nice to come around. “
“The Scapegoat” is in appearance in contemporary Sapar until February 15th.
#Audrey #Hepburns #introverted #granddaughter #NEPO #child #party #person
Image Source : nypost.com