Grazia Mottes was born in Rome, on October 15, 1941.She attended the School of Artin Rome, Ripetta Street. Painter, sculptor, ceramist, she has received important appreciations from the national press on the occasion of competitions and exhibitions.
Her name appears in important magazines and books, such as “Arte Moderna Italiana” (Bolaffi 1985) and "Quadrato" (1968).
She also exhibited abroad in Paris, London, New York. In the latest city she was particularly successful among Italo-American community.
Among the many awards she has received , it is worth to mention those received from the Minister of Tourism Sen. Nicola Signorello and the Minister of Justice Hon Clelio Darida.

"The sign of Grazia Mottes, both in painting and in sculpture, is always an office and biting poetic in the sense that she is able to return images of not only the most obvious external characteristics, but also the underground power of expression that makes effective and significant. Her nudes, in particular, in the mind to affect the unique ability to return a humanity of women, prey to an abnormal beauty: something stranger individually with the common, yet focused, practical and nobly in a kind of beauty carnal that often goes in metaphysics, a sign that remains in the hearts and minds of the beholder. "(Massimo Grillandi).

"Power, passion, humanity and sensitivity are the fundamental characteristics of the prevailing multifaceted and pictorial work of Grazia Mottes. (...) Mankind is expressed in situations like the paintings and pictures that go to hit the emotional centrality of each person as they radiates love for others and for nature: sea, sky and earth. But the common denominator of all the works is the search for escape from everyday life to enter a world exclusive, personal, refined by the sea naked, by the characters in allegorical paintings. And perhaps this constant evasion of reality that gives freshness at the paintings of Grazia Mottes results in genuine originality in performing every issue. "(Francesco Basso).

"Grazia Mottes finds her size when she is essential to isolate the scope of imagination and explore in an expressionist, creating forms and obsessive liberating at the same time, which are repeated pleas and stormy torments in the search for truth. Horses, women, sea immediately recognize that and yet we do not tire because mysteriously unfinished in a perpetual development in an effort to express themselves and that is to escape from prison time to join all the forces of nature and the great myths that have sprouted from them . '(Alfonso Leto).

Personal exhibitions

1975-76 Galleria Hermes, via Margutta
1976 Accademia di Romania
1978 Galleria Scalette Rosse
1980 New York
1981 Parigi
1981 Accademia Tiberina
1981 Hotel Hilton
1982 Villa Amiani
1983 Grand Hotel Ritz
1983 Galleria Le Scalette
1985 Parigi
1989 Londra
1990 Accademia di Romania
1991 Accademia di Egitto
1992-93 Accademia di Romania.