9 September 2019
When I was in Iceland I was very impressed to see Vik’s black beach. The black color is given by the ash of the volcanoes that turns into sand. The contrast of black with the greens of the promontory and the white of the waves is really exciting. The colors of Iceland are entering my canvases with these contrasts, surreal in our eyes but real in those lands full of natural charm. I like the fact that traveling is a […]
12 August 2019
The wild nature of Iceland has not struggled to get into my canvases. I wanted to focus on the creeks of the fjords overlooking the Atlantic Ocean to show these wonderful openings. In the foreground the light traces the path that leads to the tip of the fjord. The blue of the ocean is an intense ultramarine (when I saw it I didn’t believe it) and it softens all that dominance of the green. Last days of vacation in Croatia, […]
22 July 2019
Back from an incredible trip to Iceland, I immediately started working and in this painting, one of the first, I depicted the peninsula of Tjornes, in north-eastern Iceland. I wondered what I wanted to focus on in these new Icelandic paintings, and I decided to start with the vivacity and brilliance of those greens. The wild and uncontaminated nature of these places highlights the contrast of the blue of the ocean and the bright colors of the expanses of the […]
1 July 2019
I have just come back from this eight-day trip to Iceland, where I literally got drunk on the colors of this very special and wild nature. Thinking about this Monday, I fished out a work that I did in 2010 right on Iceland: then I had only started from a photo I had seen on a book and I braved myself creating these strong contrasts that seemed unrealistic. Instead, now that I’ve finally been there, nine years later, it strikes […]
