Letting go and falling backwards

Letting go and falling backwards

Acrylic, oil and pastels on canvas

100 x 100 cm

2021

"Letting go and falling backwards" is a painting all about surrendering to the creative process. Stepping into the studio, even day after day, is always a new experience. This painting was a leap of faith, a step in a new direction and palette, dedicated to an interpretation of the all-inspiring and sometimes intimidating natural world in green.

It is a painting made with a very instinctive and energetic technique, and the palette conveys the life force of the earth, the feeling of being consumed in a forest or jungle or canopy of trees. It is a painting that makes the viewer perhaps feel small in the natural world. It provides perspective. Nature reigns over all else. It is unpredictable, powerful and clear.

"Letting go and falling backwards" is just that... releasing your hold on what you believe you know, falling backwards into the unknown. And being held there.

At the time of this writing, "Letting go and falling backwards" is available for collection in my Italy studio.

Botanica

Botanica

Acrylic, oil and pastels on canvas

100 x 100

2021

"Botanica" is a painting dedicated to all the glory in the details of nature, taking the minute and fragile and transforming them into grandness. This painting is an abstract interpretation of growing life and artistry in nature, of flowers, branches, leaves, and their apparent tenuousness.

"Botanica" was painting in several layers of mixed media, allowing for a certain hide and seek feeling when viewing the painting. Oil pastels were used to draw some of the more detailed parts of the painting, creating a poetry of drawn lines and oil paint washes of color.

It is a painting that requires a moment of communion and stillness, observing and exploration. It is like a story unfolding. One delicate page at a time.

Painting this painting was an extended meditation. I am especially proud of it.

As of this writing, "Botanica" is available for collection in my Italy studio.

Tutto quello che ti ho nascosto

Tutto quello che to ho nascosto

Oil and acrylic on canvas

90 x 90 cm

2021

"Tutto quello che ti ho nascosto" is a painting so dear, dear to my heart.

Its title in Italian translates into "All that I have hidden from you" in English. It is a painting dedicated to myself.

Some paintings are laborious and require coaxing into the world, and others are ready, banging down the door to take shape and become alive. This piece was one of those, a natural, spontaneous, joyful flow of creativity and light and energy. As I was making it I felt such total gratitude and freedom, and I thought of all that I had hidden from myself, unknowingly, in the years when my creative practice was pushed to the background of my life. I feel this often, as if I have a never-ending stampede of creativity escaping from me after years of tamping it down, to make room for everyone and everything else.

This painting is all that. It is like a sapphire on the wall. It is a clear, clear bell.

At the time of this writing, "Tutto quello che to ho nascosto" is available for collection in my Italy studio.