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.

Laying in the grass and watching the sky

Laying in the grass and watching the sky

Acrylic and oil on canvas

120 x 160 cm

2021

"Laying in the grass and watching the sky" is an ode to stopping time and reveling in the nature world. It's title is self explanatory and its size is human scale. It is a painting that beckons the viewer to step inside of it, to hear the crickets and smell the scent of the grass and flora. It is created to be an overwhelming, subtle yet powerful, ever-changing call to stillness. It is a painting made with innumerable layers of color and dimensions, and a chameleon, mutating with the light, the season, the weather. It seems to generate its own light from within, the result of mixed media with some underlying metallic acrylic washes.

"Laying in the grass and watching the sky" is a bridge between the natural world and viewer, a kind of human scale doorway. It is totally serene, but also alive and passionate. It resonates with its own light. And life.

At the time of this writing "Laying in the grass and watching the sky" is available for collection in my Italy studio.