Atrani Drawing

The bell tower which is the main focus of this artwork is one of the fews in a nearby town: Atrani, a beautiful, small village on the Coast. I often wonder why I cannot stop looking at it and being enchanted every time, and I guess it is because the bell tower is so iconic, so different in colour and shape from all the other buildings and from the church itself. I think it is also because it stands out, there is nothing behind it, it is surrounded only by the sky and the sea. It seems almost cut out. Landscape is a subject that I rarely do, but my life has been quite different from the previous years in these last months and I ended up going to the beach more often than usual. After almost 3 years spent in London I was back in Italy almost a year ago, and during lockdown there weren't many places I could go to, so I started exploring my surroundings, some of them being places where I haven't been in a long time, or places that I would see for the first time ever, or that I would look at with fresh, new eyes. When we were finally allowed to go to the beach we started going again to Castiglione di Ravello beach, the place where all the people from Ravello (my boyfriend being one of them) go. And when summer was over we didn't stop, because the weather is still so nice and I felt almost an obligation to spend time outside, taking in as mush sunshine as I could, as who knows when we would have been able to do that again? You guess the tourists were very few during those weeks, so the beach felt like a very intimate place, almost like going to visit a relative. I couldn't help but taking pictures, like I was a tourist myself or like I was seeing that place for the first time, but I think it is like that for almost everyone, because the place is so beautiful that every time you are there, you cannot help but staring at the view and tell yourself how lucky you are to be there. I found out Sennelier oil pastels are a great medium to depict the surface of the sea and I am quite pleased with the entire artwork. Now that I live in Italy again I think my way to look at things is slightly changed, and I am thrilled to share my new vision of the Italian "landscape", made of things, people and places. The artwork will be shipped rolled in a tube, I recommend to take it as soon as possible to a framer, to professionally flatten it back and to provide a frame with a glass, as the oil pastel needs to be protected from the dust. 5th of November 2020

Drawing:oil pastel on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11.7 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in

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