Portrait
Loggia, Oil on Canvas
Venetian dodges visiting their province took part of their siesta behind white stone walls of the Praetor’s palace, letting only the tiny sound of a letter falling through the stone bocca to disturb them for a minute. Bell from the nearby church was loud as pigeons flew back to Piazza San Marco in Venice, leaving behind the magnificent Loggia Caffe where first coffee in this part of the world has been served far before Stendhal arrived. Loggia, seemingly floating above the mirror of white stone plaza, remembering all the centuries passing by….
I stood there, capturing the moment of petrified time and listening to the silence of history…
Loggia, Koper, oil on canvas, 2024
Portrait
Portrait, oil on canvas, 2024
Colors of Milan Landscape and Morandi Painting
Last week I was travelling back to our hotel in Milan, pretty tired after a day of gallery visits. The late afternoon light of the November was pouring to the inside of the train. The Milan landscape flowing behind our windows had a certain glow from the late sun. These colors attracted my attention first, just sky blue sky and a certain shade of green grass. But the very next moment we passed a group of houses and they were just exactly as the houses from a Morandi painting. I have been completely surprised to realise the color palette Morandi had used for his canvases came from the true colors of his home landscape……….as true art really can evolve only from the true colors of the life…
Landscape Painting Colors of Autumn
Landscape painting Colors of Autumn, part of my Forest Series, finished today. Oil on canvas.
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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Museum
I’ve never visited a museum I wouldn’t love. I simply love the feeling of walking down the museum halls, the smell of the old wooden parquet polish in the air, hearing some visitors quietly talking just around the corner, love the thrill of seeing artefacts from all around the globe neatly arranged in some new systematization, love wondering what is it be seen in the next vitrine…sometimes immersing to the descriptions of the objects so deeply that I become suspicious for the museum staff 😆 omg would they know just how happy I am each time visiting a museum and how many times would I come back, at least in my memories…..
Krater of Aristonothos, oil on canvas, 2023
Krater of Aristonothos: Ulysses and his companions blinding Giant Polyphemus, now in the Capitoline Museums, Rome
Art Studio Still Life
Peggy
Happy Birthday Peggy!
Peggy, oil on canvas, 2023
Painting August Flowers
Alda Merini Portrait Oil on Canvas
I don’t need money.
I need feelings,
words, wisely chosen words,
flowers called thoughts,
roses called presences
dreams that live in the trees,
songs that make the statues dance,
stars that whisper
in the lovers’ ear.
I need poetry,
this magic that burns
the heaviness of the words,
that awakens emotions and creates new colours.
Alda Merini
