TL;DR: Antonia Iannucci is a contemporary Italian artist based in the UK with over 150 original acrylic paintings across wildlife, landscape, figurative, floral, and abstract genres. Her work is exhibited regularly and available as originals and open-edition prints. Every piece carries the same two threads: a love of the natural world and a commitment to fighting injustice.
There's a particular kind of painting that stops you mid-scroll. Not because it's technically perfect, but because you can feel something behind it. An urgency. A point of view.
That's what Antonia Iannucci's work does. Whether it's a lion holding your gaze across a canvas, a humpback whale suspended in deep blue, or a Somerset sunrise rendered in warm expressive strokes, her paintings don't sit quietly on a wall. They ask something of you.
With over 150 original works to her name and a practice that spans multiple genres and mediums, here's a proper look at the art of Antonia Iannucci.
A Practice Rooted in the UK, Shaped by Italy
Antonia works from a studio practice rooted in the rural landscapes of the United Kingdom, though her artistic sensibility is unmistakably shaped by her Italian background and her training at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
That combination of European instinct, American design education, and British countryside shows up in her work. There's a boldness to her color choices, a willingness to let emotion drive the composition rather than constraint. She works primarily in acrylic on canvas, a medium that suits her: fast, responsive, expressive. The kind of medium where hesitation shows.
She describes her own process simply: "I don't look for inspiration. I show up and start." That discipline is visible in the volume and range of what she's produced.
The Collections: What She Paints and Why
Antonia's body of work covers six distinct creative territories, each reflecting a different dimension of how she sees the world.
Wildlife
This is the heart of it. Her wildlife paintings, lions, tigers, rhinos, whales, elephants, parrots, zebras, are where her conservation instincts and her artistic voice meet most directly.
Works like Silent Roar Echoes, Facing Lions, Matriarch and Baby, White Rhino, and Extinction Is Real aren't just technically accomplished animal paintings. They're portraits of species under pressure, rendered with the kind of empathy that only comes from someone who genuinely aches over what's being lost. Extinction Is Real says it plainly in its title. You don't need the context to feel the urgency, though knowing her story makes it hit harder.
The Humpback Whale piece captures something difficult to put into words: the scale of the animal, the depth of the water, the loneliness of it. It's the kind of painting that makes the IUCN endangered species list feel personal rather than statistical.
Other standouts in the wildlife collection include Regal Lion, Lion's Gaze, Tiger, Zebra, and Flame Bowerbird, each one a study in how much a single animal can hold when painted with genuine attention.
Landscapes
Her landscape work is grounded in the places she knows. Somerset Sunrise, Somerset, Warminster Sunset, The Hills are English rural scenes painted with warmth and a clear love of place. There's nothing generic about them. These are specific skies, specific light, specific mornings.
Purple Stonehenge goes somewhere else: ancient, elemental, charged with the kind of energy a landmark carries when you stop treating it as a tourist site and start treating it as a living place.
Figurative and Abstract
Her figurative and abstract work is where the women's rights thread comes in most directly. Lips, Eyes, Hope are intimate, close, and deliberately confrontational in the way figurative work can be when an artist is making a point rather than just making a picture.
Earth in a Spiral sits between the abstract and the ecological, a single image carrying both a scientific idea and an emotional one.
Florals
Sunflower, Red Poppy, Pear Tree, her floral work is technically some of the most accomplished paintings she does. The color is unafraid. These aren't decorative pieces; they're celebrations of the natural world in the most direct form possible, plants given the same dignity she gives animals.
The Originals: What It Means to Own One
Every original Antonia Iannucci painting is a one-of-a-kind acrylic on canvas work. No two are the same. They range from $3,000 to $8,000, with her large-scale wildlife originals like White Rhino and Mother Earth commanding the top of that range for good reason: the scale, the subject matter, and what it took to put those animals and landscapes on canvas with that level of conviction.
The art site at antoniaiannucci.com supports augmented reality previewing, so you can place any painting on your actual wall using your phone camera before committing. That's a small detail but a meaningful one. It removes the risk from a serious art purchase.
Open-edition prints are available from $27, making the work accessible at every level. Whether someone spends $27 on a print of Lion's Gaze or $5,000 on an original landscape, they're bringing the same intent into their home.
Exhibitions: The Work in the World
Antonia's paintings don't only live online. She exhibits actively, with her most recent shows documented through the Xtinctio platform.
Her March 2026 exhibition featured three new original works: Peace, Lion, and Freedom, all acrylic paintings sitting squarely at the intersection of wildlife subject matter and emotional statement that defines her strongest work. Freedom in particular has that quality her best pieces share: a title that functions as a thesis and a painting that earns it.
Her April 2026 show continued with Freedom carrying across, a sign that certain works have a life extending well beyond a single exhibition moment.
The events page at antoniaiannucci.com/events tracks her exhibition schedule for anyone who wants to see the work in person, which is worth doing. Acrylic on canvas at scale reads differently than any screen can convey.
The Connection Between the Art and Xtinctio
It's worth being direct about how the two sides of Antonia's work relate to each other, because they are not separate projects that happen to share a founder.
The original paintings of White Rhino, Mother Earth, Mother and Calf, Blue Tit, Polar Bear, and Heart Hunting Leopard that appear in the Xtinctio fine art collection are the same practice, just sold through a different channel. Each of those originals funds conservation work through the 50% profit donation model. The jewelry collections, rhino rings, whale bracelets, elephant charms, are the wearable translation of the same subjects she paints.
Buy a print of Matriarch and Baby or a Facing Lions original and you're doing the same thing as buying an Xtinctio elephant bracelet. You're bringing her world into yours and sending money to the people protecting the animals in it.
If You Want to Own the Work
Originals are available at antoniaiannucci.com/originals, with paintings from $3,000 across wildlife, landscape, figurative, abstract, and floral collections. Open-edition prints start from under $30.
If you want the wearable version of the same artistic vision, the full Xtinctio collection is at xtinctio.com. First order gets 15% off and free US shipping with code TOGETHER.
Either way, you're supporting an artist who has never separated making beautiful things from making the world better.
