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How at ease this lady must have been, to remove her shoes at the restaurant! I love this kind of details
I like to leave some areas of the paper blank to add light to the composition
I love drawing everyday objects, like bottles and glasses
This artwork is all about light and shade
I like to layer many colours in order to add depth to the artwork
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Riddle & Finns II Drawing

Mary Cinque

Italy

Drawing, Pastel on Paper

Size: 16.5 W x 23.4 H x 0 D in

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About The Artwork

I made this drawing from a photograph I took in BRighton, UK. At that time we were living in London and took trips to explore the surroundings. Brighton has been on our list for a long time, so I did a little bit of research, writing down a list of restaurants to visit, too. I love to depict people in restaurants and cafès. Love to imagine their life in those moments of calm and relax. So I took many photos in this great place, Riddle and Finns, and made many artworks. This one in particular is all about friendship, to me. I like to think about these two women like lifelong friends, taking some time off just for themselves to catch up on all that is important to them. They were probably sitting at the best table, by this huge window, from where you can look at the sea, and almost feel like you are onto the beach. This kind of scene gives me the chance to draw almost all the things that I like: human beings, objects, architecture, furniture. This artwork is made with Sennelier oil pastels, an amazing brand with a rich history: these pastels were in fact invented for Pablo Picasso, and although he is not among my favourite artists, it is nice to think about walking in the steps of such famous artists, when using them. I hope this artwork will transport you to a seaside town, enjoying the sun and the smell of the salty air. The artwork will be shipped rolled in a tube, I advise 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.

Details & Dimensions

Drawing:Pastel on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16.5 W x 23.4 H x 0 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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