Posted in Life, In & Out of the Studio, tagged italy on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A wonderfully preserved erotic fresco from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, where Dave and I vacationed this summer. The museum is truly a shambles – the nonchalant disregard with which Italians seem to treat the priceless art that saturates their country is pretty shocking – but it’s full of amazing treasure.
It reminds me of [...]
Posted in Finished Work, tagged apple trees, italy, landscape, teaching on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This past summer I taught a landscape painting course for Boston University as part of their Study Abroad program. It was located on an farm/estate called Capitignano, in the Mugello Valley in Tuscany, a few miles outside of a little provincial town, Borgo San Lorenzo. Capitignano was extremely beautiful, and quite isolated. My students were [...]
