The New Year: A Return

The New Year: A Return

This year I am returning here to my blog. I have missed the value of sharing work in a longer format, having the opportunity to reflect on working and developing as a painter this way and also the format to be able to interact with you in the process.

This year I have lots of projects in mind, mostly outdoors around Rome. I will be working on some larger canvases of places I love and have not yet painted. I would also like to work in the studio on some larger interiors and figure paintings.

As an artist there is always a need to be experimenting and trying new things. That could be learning a new medium or using an old medium in a new way. It is important to remember to make work that is just for the love of painting, trying new ideas and pushing out beyond what I know and am comfortable with.

At the same time it is important to keep developing a body of work, to keep painting Rome and deepening my relationship with its landscape and having the chance to share it with the world. Painting for me seems to be a balance of the familiar and new.

I look forward to a year full of sharing and painting, of inspiration and growth.

I wish you a year of getting back to whatever it is you love and inspires you!