Found//1 Painting

My Montefanna Studio is near Fiesole, in the hills surrounding Florence. Found//1 is part of a collection of 5 works that are meditative studies of Tuscan landscapes. Its surface is crafted from hemp, animal glue size, natural pigment, oil and linen on a substantial wooden structure made by hand by a local craftsman. Its textures and colours shift with light and position and is intended as a play between the organic and the artisanal, the old and the new, the still and the mobile. Found//1 speaks of a gentle, majestic and luminous landscape. It draws on a sense of place and on changing summer light on fields of grass.