Elusive Tuscany

Some places reveal themselves in fleeting glimpses. Tuscany was one of them.

During my time in Tuscany, I became captivated by a particular view of the countryside. From a mountain, it was too distant. From my room, it was obscured by flywire and trees. Along the roads, I was either too low, moving too quickly, or watching the landscape disappear behind passing cars, buses and trains.

I photographed what I could, but the images never quite captured what I remembered seeing.

So I painted it instead.

This work is a collection of impressions, fragments and remembered glimpses of the Tuscan countryside. The patchwork of fields, distant mountains, winding roads and scattered farmhouses came together gradually, shaped as much by imagination and memory as by observation.

Acrylic on canvas, sealed timber frame