Ponte Vecchio

Title: Ponte Vecchio

Technique: Oil paints on cotton canvas

Dimensions: 50 cm × 100 cm

Year: 2025

"There was once a cartoon that I remember very well from my childhood. It featured an old man with a white beard — Leonardo da Vinci — who would walk through various corners of Florence and create art. The Ponte Vecchio also appeared in that story. It stayed with me so strongly that I had that fairy tale in the back of my mind while painting this work by the Arno River in the morning. This is the power of memories and the power of an image that, for each pair of eyes, can open a different hidden chamber of the heart and evoke different recollections."

Each artwork is created entirely outdoors, directly in nature.

Painting en plein air is something more to me than simply creating — it is a personal experience, a moment in which I can fully immerse myself in nature; a unique kind of encounter. This is the form of painting in which I feel most at home, and the one I consider the truest and most aligned with myself. Paintings are sold unframed.