
"Favola"
80 x 80 cm
Oil on canvas
2023
Mothers don't have favorite children, right? Painters don't have favorite paintings, no? Every single painting I offer up to the world touches me and is a piece I would hang in the center of my own home forever. That is my rule.
And then there is Favola... this painting is somehow my favorite. Somehow the perfect symphony of light, of life, of all things that grow and blow in the breeze, of every story, every fairytale, every moment I have inhabited my imagination. Favola is an Italian word. Like many Italian words, it rolls off the tongue like a little effortless poem. A melody. It means "Fable" in English, and it encapsulates everything I look for when I step into the studio.
Favola is somehow strangely still mine, and it was the most important painting that carried me through cancer treatment in 2024. My home is bathed in beauty and light. I fill it with energy and my art is everywhere. I chose to place Favola beside my bed, and I gazed into the misty green light and lost myself, lost all suffering, narratives of reality. I stepped inside and was saved, over and over. Art is a mysterious thing. It offers shelter, inspiration, reassurance that beauty still exists, even in the darkest of times.
Favola is all that. I love this painting. Probably the most of them all. I know that when it finds its forever home, it will gift someone with an endless, enduring fable. A haven. A home.
At the time of this writing, Favola is available in my Italy studio.
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