Drawing for forgetting 3
I love using oil pastels, something about the elemental physicality of scratchin...
justatest 15 Apr 22
Source
Made during a time when my wife was breastfeeding our kids. This is a sort of h...
justatest 14 Apr 22
Little 8 (piccole tette)
I received an invitation from a Florentine gallery called Otto Luogo dell'Arte (...
justatest 13 Apr 22
Controtendenza
Increasingly squeezed by my diminishing workspace, I didn´t want to stop making ...
justatest 19 Oct 21
Two masterpieces in Two Weeks
Antonio Sammartano, art event organizer, artist, and gallerist asked me to send ...
justatest 18 Oct 21
Castoff
Something about the simple beauty and elegance of an offcut inspires a curiosity...
justatest 18 Oct 21
Can & Tela Rossa
When I first arrived in the city, I had a lot of problems with the neighbours as...
justatest 17 Oct 21
Casuistry
For some time I had been making sculptural works with protruding elements that e...
justatest 17 Oct 21
Bombay Girl
Deeply shocked by the vastness and misery of Bombay (now Mumbai) slums on my fir...
justatest 17 Oct 21
Sicilia
Driving along a deserted road for hours, then suddenly the shock of two flashing...
justatest 17 Oct 21
Bread For Forgetting
The distinguished Italian architect and artist Mauro Lovi said he knew some Sard...
justatest 17 Oct 21
Game Over
What finally made me detatch from the wall and enter the world of sculpture was ...
justatest 16 Oct 21
New World
Driving inland through a desolate Sicilian interior, the image of a ragged curta...
justatest 16 Oct 21
Sartorio Blue (male painting)
When our first son was born, my wife received a rocking chair sent by her sister...
justatest 16 Oct 21
Femmena
Originally a wall hanging piece but it came crashing down and seemed happier on ...
justatest 16 Oct 21
Al
Made after a journey through Mid-East countries Syria, Jordan, Palestine, and Is...
justatest 16 Oct 21
Art Trap
The nearest I hope to get to making an artist's coffin.
justatest 16 Oct 21
Offnow
This work has just gotten so fed up with being, it caves over in a complete coll...
justatest 16 Oct 21
Canzone Blu
Might it be possible to make a type of celtic scroll instance that frees itself ...
justatest 16 Oct 21
Innermost
I couldn't help noticing that, over time, most people ended up throwing away pie...
justatest 16 Oct 21
Crolla
Initial sketch for this had it a slender wavy panel but it was another one which...
justatest 15 Oct 21
Two Unfinished
These two very old half-finished works may be down but they're not quite out (as...
justatest 14 Oct 21
Notice To Quit
Landlords hate artists. It's something about their space filling up with painti...
justatest 29 Sep 21
Returned Picture
A first painting completed back in the home place after decades abroad. I find ...
justatest 08 Sep 21
Sketch
In Florence I treated myself to a beautifully handmade, bound, hardback drawing ...
justatest 22 Aug 20
Valediction
Reading an article from an Indian news magazine on the recently assasinated Raji...
justatest 17 Aug 20
Schism (fragment)
justatest 17 Aug 20
Dream
A mattress appeared in the steam at the end of the garden. What a peculiar p...
justatest 10 Aug 20
Dead On Arrival
The balcony of the apartment I rented was full of dead plants. Some weeks had pa...
justatest 29 Sep 22
Cinquecento
It's well known that italians love their cars. However it's not only the fast sp...
justatest 29 Sep 22
Victoria
Watching the horror of the Uganda genocide, half-bodies being hauled out of the ...
justatest 29 Sep 22
Campotondo
A simple variation on a previous theme of deconstructing the painting.
justatest 30 Sep 22
Partition
Further explorations towards deconstructing a painting
justatest 30 Sep 22
Back view (homage to Guston)
justatest 30 Sep 22
Yield!
What to do with a discarded street traffic stop sign?
justatest 30 Sep 22
Adjustment
My wife asked me to make a painting that she could gift to her friend.
justatest 30 Sep 22
Yield 2
More work with discarded traffic signs
justatest 30 Sep 22
Hacked
Can art bite back?
justatest 30 Sep 22