Painting series Ostia Antica has kept me busy since the Covid- 19 pandemics with lockdowns has started. Still remembering the day I’ve taken a new canvas from the stack, put it on the easel and sat in front of it. A luxury I love the most, just to paint whatever calls me at the moment.

Just imagine. We’ve been under the first lock down in Slovenia, I’ve been staying at home and dreaming about the summer to come. It has been obvious we’ve got to stay at home for at least a couple of weeks. So the reveries have come up my mind. Remembering Italian summers. Remembering Rome. Remembering pine trees. Remembering the freedom of traveling.

And as I’ve remembered walking Ostia ruins I’ve seen the striking analogy between remnants of lost civilization and our times. An archeology museums aficionado and history lover, I’ve got immersed in the subject I’ve never before considered as my painting subject. Indeed, I’ve just loved working on the subject, letting it evolve into a painting series. Here comes a new work from the series. And which comes up to my ind is a wish, to be able to visit these places soon…

My new Ostia Antica painting is made in oil on linen canvas, measuring 60 x 75 cm.

Please find here some Latin sayings:

EXEGI MONUMENTUM AERE PERRENIUS: I have made a monument more lasting than bronze. Horace, Roman poet

MATERIAM SUPERABAT OPUS: The workmanship surpassed the material. Ovid, Roman poet

SOL OMNIBUS LUCET: The sun shines on everyone, Gaius Petronius, Roman writer

DE GUSTIBUS ET COLORIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDUM: There’s no arguing about tastes and colors.

My new Ostia Antica painting is made in oil on linen canvas, measuring 60 x 75 cm.