Sonata

Sonata

Oil on canvas

100 x 100 cm

2020

"Sonata" is a gem of a painting, made while listening to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on a loop. It was a deeply moving experience making this artwork... totally hypnotic, spontaneous, harmonious, and free of struggle. The palette reminded me of the turning of dusk, warm and soft and enveloping. That moment of the day when the blue of the sky just barely holds on before the transition into night.

This is a classic oil painting made with only brushes and oils and varnish. A classic method for beautiful classical music.

It is a painting steeped in intensity, but also calmness and stillness. Much like the piece of music it is named after.

It was one of the centerpieces of my solo exhibition "Luce" [Light] in Italy in 2020.

"Sonata" is part of a private collection in Brescia, Italy.

"Rising"

Rising

Oil on canvas

60 x 48 inches

2020

"Rising" is a painting dedicated to rebirth. To renaissance. To the wild glorious turning of the planet in the sky.

I painted this large canvas in a moment of deep yearning for a new beginning, when the world and weather and sky felt heavy, and I longed for a rosy kind of hope.

It is a mixture of several techniques, some tenuous and subtle and others more marked and forceful, blended together to create a harmonious effect on the surface of the canvas... never meek or hidden, but also never aggressive or abrasive. Its palette is a warm, golden-red dawn or dusk. It is a painting of movement, of time transforming the sky. Of time transforming us all.

"Rising" tells the story of a longing for new beginnings, for change, and for awakening. It is a transformative statement on canvas, and a bearer of its own light.

"Rising" is part of a private collection in California.

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.