Painter
There is a limit to everything. I may have reached the limit of tolerance that I have for parking in the centre of the city. This realization has lead me to consider using the bicycle to reach the place where I want to paint. At least in the centre. In any case, I’m fed up …
Sometimes there is little consolation. You do what you can trying to be as honest and sincere as possible with what you are doing. You put your heart into it. There is self-gratification; yes. I am happy to do what I do and I find immense pleasure in doing it. But sometimes it just isn’t …
What is the difference between the heart of the Eternal City and its periferic residential areas? Well when I moved out of the city to live in a cheaper area outside of the centre, I climbed to the roof of the building and painted the view while the sun was setting. It was an overcast …
I really do get too excited about painting outdoors. After I’ve cleared my schedule and checked the weather, I get everything ready the night before. I make a nice little heap of items near the door in the entrance so I can prepare without waking anybody. There is the easel and turps, my clothes and …
I have lived in Rome since 1986. In order to live, I organized myself with a new French easel, a frame from a backpack that could be used for the easel and a bicycle. I went out every day and painted en plein air. I made small paintings on canvas and as soon as I …
When I look out onto the garden in the morning, everything is quite still. Yet, when I concentrate on one particular part of the landscape, I can notice the slightest movement such as the wind through the grass. I think that our eyes are capable of registering a mass of information even if the impetus …
I am trying to paint from a larger format while maintaining the limitations of en plein air painting. Those limitations are working within a certain time limit and not returning to the same place to ‘finish’ the painting. The time limits allows me maximum opportunity to study the effects of light on nature. I say …
I have had the fortune to teach painting again after many years of inactivity. I say fortune because it gives me the chance to go into the streets and parks of Rome and re-discover the beauty of this city. We also went outside of the city to nearby Tivoli to visit the Villa D’Este. I …
Paris Palestina Anyone who wakes up early in the morning regularly knows that the first light from the eastern horizon is pure magic. A soft glow almost imperceptibly appears from the darkness in the deep dark sky. Slowly, the glow strengthens and turns into a crack of fire on the horizon. Shortly afterwards, the highest …
Quite some time has past since I’ve been to the centre with my oil paints. I’ve been looking at other places when choosing a place to work. I’ve been thinking that painting in the centre of Rome in some way gives too much of an advantage to a painter; it really is difficult NOT to …