Sicilia

Sicilia

80 x 80cm

Oil on canvas

2021

I am obsessed with the sky. I crane my neck up often. Everywhere.

How can you not stare at the ever-changing sky? This magical, unpredictable, mysterious, expansive essence over your head, over the world?

"Sicilia" is a painting made while dreaming of the psychedelic, mind-blowing sky I witnessed every day in late September over the island of Marettimo in Sicily. I was on the eastern side of the island and would awaken early, just as the birdsong began, and watch the sun rise over the Mediterranean. I adore the dawn, that moment just before life wakes up. The aloneness of it. The quiet and stillness of dawn is my favorite time of the day.

"Sicilia" is dedicated to the at first subtle and then blazing and dramatic coming of the day.

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

Light

Light

150 x 106 cm

2020

Light. Light glows in the dark. Light leads the way.

"Light" is a big, luminous, frolicking painting filled with meaning. "Light" was the painting that lead the way in my own personal Renaissance. I painted "Light" in May 2020, That season we all remember after the world changed forever, when I took a leap into larger paintings again after too long holding back and staying small. It is a painting literally filled with light, so hard to photograph properly, so ephemeral and ever-changing.

"Light" was one of the centerpieces of my solo exhibition in 2020 in Italy (the show was entitled "Luce", which means light in Italian), and I remember seeing people stand in front of it, and if they let themselves linger for a moment, their demeanor would soften, lighten, become just a little more free.

Some paintings are exactly, exactly what I conceived them to to be, like "Light".

At the time of this writing, "Light" is available for collection in my Italy studio.

Atmosfera

Atmosfera

160 x 100 cm oil on canvas

2020

Every now and then, unexpectedly, magically, the stars align and a painting comes along, out of nowhere, with no pre-conceived ideas or aim or desire. A painting I never imagined, dreamt, admired in another artist's creation, planned, or called into being.

It just arrives, like a lightening strike from the sky in the absence of thunder.

That is "Atmosfera". Painted on a whim, on a hot, light-hearted summer day.

"Atmosfera" was the centerpiece of my solo exhibition in 2020. It was the painting that sky-rocketed my presence on social media as an artist. It was the painting that literally everyone who laid eyes on it connected with. It was that most phenomenal thing. I have no idea how I made it!

It was a certain kind of magic.

"Atmosfera" was collected by a new collector in Tuscany, and lives in a beautiful villa in the Tuscan hills, in a proper setting for a painting so charmed.