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Sennelier oil pastel have a wonderful texture and they are great for making scratching effects, revealing layers of colour underneath the surface of the artwork
I never tire of drawing scenes in restaurants, there are so many details that caught my eyes
The way restaurants and cafes are decorated in London is my idea of beauty
I love to depict every tiny detail but without giving too much information: I like that the viewer could add something on their own to the artwork
It's nice to focus on people in the background, too. They complete the scene and give something more to discover every time you look at the artwork

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Escocesa man Drawing

Mary Cinque

Italy

Drawing, oil pastel on Paper

Size: 8.3 W x 11.7 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Here we were at Escocesa, a restaurant in Stoke Newington, very close to where we were living at the time (weren't we lucky!?), the concept behind this great place is, as stated on their website: "So in a nutshell we’ll be hi-jacking some of the best Scottish seafood on it’s way to Spain and serving it along side some of the best Spanish produce, wines and sherries." Escocesa soon became one of our favourite and we went there several times, just by ourselves or with friends who came to visit us, and every time we left the place satisfied and happy. Not only the food and drinks are great, but the decor inspired me so much and Sennelier oil pastels gave me the perfect nuances and transparency to render all that I wanted to remember and share about this place. A very significant artwork for me as it is one from the many I made during the Covid 19 lockdown in Italy. Being forced home I went through all the photographs I took during the three years I've been living in London and made oil pastel on paper inspired by them. Making this series has been great for me as it gave me the chance to feel all the emotions I felt while I was in London, a city that I love. Most of the photographs were taken in restaurants as my boyfriend was working as a chef at the time and I am always in for dining out and enjoying new places where I can sketch people immersed in beautifully curated interiors. As it is often the case in my artworks, humans are at the center of the composition (as a feminist I like to include all kinds of beauty in my works, not only the female body as seen through "the male gaze"). The art of preparing and sharing food has fascinated me since my boyfriend introduced me to high quality, fresh ingredients that make all the difference when it comes to food. I also like to focus on the decor of a place and, of course, the other people that animate a place, being them other customers and the restaurant staff. It all contributes to the experience. Sharing food is about caring and discover, and I hope the excitement I feel when I find a new favourite place could travel from this drawing to your place.

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oil pastel on Paper

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8.3 W x 11.7 H x 0.1 D in

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"Mary Cinque is an Italian painter, graphic designer and blogger working and living in the Amalfi Coast. Her works – joyful, bright, colourful painting and drawings – are inspired by this place, as well as her heritage, background and travels. Mary spent her childhood between Italy and Ethiopia. Before moving back to the Amalfi Coast in 2019, she has lived in Naples and Milan, where she attended academies of fine art; and Philadelphia, New York and London where she improved her artistic skills and style. Alongside making art, she works as an illustrator and graphic designer, collaborating with selected brands, working on artistic commissions such as illustrations, labels and showroom design. Cinque’s art develops themes connected with what makes us essentially humans: our habitat – the buildings, the streets, the cities – our bodies, what we eat and how we socialise. Art, in Mary’s paintings, becomes a powerful instrument of philosophical investigation which reveals who we really are by questioning our habits, observing those characteristic traits we share as a species, often without realising it. The artist looks at human beings from a different perspective, making interesting and significant what can seem normal or banal to us in our everyday life: the buildings that populate our cities, the streets we walk, people sitting across our table at a café, strangers on the bus. In this nutshell interview by Giulia Corti, Mary Cinque explores some of the most relevant aspects of her art and reflects on how it offers an intriguing and informative perspective about the way we live as human animals. Mary, your art is colourful and vivid, it mixes human and urban subjects by making use of various techniques (oil painting; pastel drawing, markers, “digital” drawing, print-making etc.) and materials (canvasses, magazine pages, an I-pad screen). How do you choose the means with which to develop an artwork and how do the different materials and techniques influence what you want to convey, if they do? Different subjects call for different techniques. Buildings and urbanscape are always acrylic on canvas, while I prefer to depict people using a quicker, immediate approach, like the one that I can get with markers and oil pastels or digital painting. By looking at the main themes of your art, it is possible to notice what seems to be a tension. On one hand, you portrayed the stillness and artificiality of urban landscapes and buildings (e.g.

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