The Dreamers is the first painting of a new series I’m working on in these months.
Two lovers are just resting after love. They enjoy the sun, they enjoy nature, they enjoy life.
This painting is a celebration of life, of love and of beauty.
The Dreamers is a painting oil on canvas, 27,5 x 39,4 inches ( 70 x 100 cm).
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I love the mountains. I adore that sensation you feel, when you’re arrived at your goal and the stunning landscape all around you repays you for all your effort. What makes us overcome our limits? What makes us going always a little further and wanting to discover always new places? What is that need of adventure, that need of strong emotions and strong feelings always pushing us towards the unknown? This painting represent some of us ..those, for those is true the quote by Robert Frost “Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by. And that made all the difference”.
In this painting I wanted only two main character and one subject. The first character is for sure the amazing location in all its triumphant beauty (the Italian Alps in Aosta Valley, Italy). The second character is my model, representing all of us with the same spirit.. And here we are at the subject: the need for infinity, for new discoveries, the adventurer in the sense intended in the XIX century, the one I feel so near my soul.
About the amazing alpine landscape seen from the top of the mountains, of course is an homage to Caspar David Friedrich famous one, the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, dating 1818. The figure represents for sure the artist, and all people like me in need for infinity with the particular adventurous spirit, with a romantic approach to life.
I am totally in love with the alpine landscapes and with the Aosta Valley, that I live since I was a child and where I have dear friends and dear memories.
The New Romantics, Painting by Sara Calcagno, oil on canvas, 76 x 35 cm
With this painting I tried to paint the idealized memory of a peony garden: the dream of a peony garden. It is a study and it isn’t so big but neither so small.. I enjoyed with experimenting on this piece.. I finished it some days ago.
Peonies are such a poetic flower, with all those gigantic light petals. They amaze with their size and with their splendour. I adore going in peony gardens and absorbing their energy and their beauty. They are such beautiful and poetic flowers! For some years, in the past, I lived in Montefiascone (Viterbo, Italy) and in april and may I used to go very often to Centro Botanico Moutan in Vitorchiano. There they grow all kinds of peonies, they say they have the biggest collection of chines peonies in Europe! I don’t know, if it’s the biggest. For sure it is astonishing. They have such a gorgeous collection .. you can litterally walk among peonies high like yourself for hours.. This year I would have loved to go again but due to covid lockdown, we couldn’t move from our region. Pity but it will be for next year! I was lucky that my neighbor has the most amazing peonies and I could make so many pics.
Hope you will enjoy this study. It was funny to paint it and the result is what I expected, a little bit dreamy and ethereal.
Peonies’ Dream, oil on canvas by Sara Calcagno, 41 x 22 cm
Still life with pumpkin and sunflowers. Oil painting by Sara Calcagno, 30 x 40 cm. Last autumn I painted this still life study with pumpking and sunflowers in one session.. only in a second moment, I refined the painting.
I love autumn color and autumn fruits and vegetables. I love autumn. I think maybe is my favorite season together with late spring.. Anyway, if you think about it, both autumn and late spring are magical moments for nature! Lots of different seasonal fruits and flowers are at their best and very mature and so rich in their colors. The painting has already found a collector.