Watercolour 15" x 11" on Bockingford paper 140lbs
Piazza Yenne is a very busy cross road in the centre of Cagliari town. In the middle sits the proud statue of King Carlo Felice, on its own little roundabout. Beyond this, the square is a popular meeting point, especially on warm summer evenings, when the locals can stay up quite late compared with the UK!
Watercolour 15" x 11" on Bockingford paper 300g
The imposing doric gateway entrance to the citadel and onto many little museums in the old town area of Cagliari (also know as the Castello District I think), Sardinia. High up on the hill of San Michelle, the area is filled narrow streets and the tones of ochre-coloured historic buildings, made even brighter in the summer sun and fantastic panoramic views over Cagliari city and the Med.
Original Watercolour 15" x 11"
Although Venice is composed of islands and canals, the Grand Canal is the only really large one. It's shaped like a backwards letter S, and is approximately two miles long. At its widest point, at the Salute/San Marco (southern) end, it is roughly 350 feet wide; the normal width is about half that. The Grand Canal was traditionally the high-rent district in Venice; houses were larger, and decoration was on a much grander scale. This makes sense when you consider that the Canal offers much greater opportunities for everyone to see the buildings facing it. Further, the Grand Canal, affording easier transport and access to shipping, tended to favour the kind of residents who were large-scale merchants - the very ones likely to have more money.
Original Watercolour 15" x 11"
A central square in Erice, a medieval hilltop town overlooking Trapani in West Sicily. The best way by far to get up there from Trapani is the cable car, which offers you great breathtaking views over Trapani and out into the Mediterranean. The town Erice is lovely place to spend an afternoon wandering the medieval streets, with their baroque balconies and flowering vines, and drinking in the vistas.
Original Watercolour 15" x 11"
Trapani occupies a low-lying promontory with a curving harbour which, combined with its position at Sicily's western tip, made the town into an important hub for traders and travellers. Today the ferry port is still a base for journeys out to smaller islands like Favignana (a great little island to visit for the day - no cars and very peaceful), to the Italian mainland, and to Tunisia. It's around here the entrepreneurial fruit sellers arrive in their small little 3 wheel trucks that you only seem to see abroad, and start selling their produce. The town isn't particularly well-known to foreign tourists (when I was there I think I heard a brit once), and is not one of the island's most obvious holiday destinations.
Original Watercolour 15" x 11"
Central Trapani on the west coast of sicily, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele is an open haven made of part massive open air car park and park ornate gardens fronting the local government and bank buildings. In this painting I tried to get a feeling of a sultry summer's evening before the light finally disappears. It's just the time when the whole town comes to life after sheltering from the heat of the day.
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Original Watercolour 15" x 11"
The tall and sturdy wooden poles or piles line the sides of the wider canals in Venice and certainly appear in most images of Venice's waterways. Their counterparts form the foundations of all the ancient buildings in Venice, and those being submerged never rot. There's talk that these piles being exposed and slowly perishing will be replaced by poles made out of recycled materials! Shock horror.
Original Watercolour 7" x 5"
Take a steep road down from the hustle and bustle of Sorrento and you come to the lovely little harbour of Marina Grande. Almost like a step back in time with traditional boats, old houses and lovely little restaurants. It also has a nice little beach - a rare thing in Sorrento!
Original Watercolour 7" x 5"
Poetto beach is the main beach for Cagliari in Sardinia. If you live in Cagliari, you're lucky to have such a pleasant beach so close to a major city and such clean waters. When the mistral wind blows, it freshens the air and makes all the colours so much more vivid.
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