lrsMarchioriCarlo HotAirBalloon

About author:

CARLO MARCHIORI. Italian born, Carlo Marchiori studied classic art and academic design in Padua and Venice. At the age of eighteen, he left Italy to live in Canada where he worked as illustrator and film animator for C.B.C. Television and the National Film Board of Canada. In 1967 he was nominated for an Academy Award for an animated short but eventually abandoned filmmaking and advertising for mural paintings.

Artist site
http://carlomarchiori.com

Reference
http://catoga.com/carlo-marchiori/carlo-marchiori.html