A Little Further South – Amalfi Coast

A Little Further South – Amalfi Coast explores the way memories of place are assembled into new landscapes. Rather than depicting a single location, I blended views from Sorrento overlooking the Bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius with the iconic striped beach cabanas of Liguria and the Amalfi Coast, and Capri's luminous turquoise waters to create a composition built from the memories that stayed with me most.

Each place found its way onto the canvas through its own visual language. My original drawing of Mount Vesuvius was printed directly onto the canvas to preserve its graphic black-and-white quality, while the coastline was painted in acrylic and the striped cabanas were hand-painted, cut from paper, and collaged into the composition. Together, these layers reflect the way places are experienced, remembered, and reassembled into a single landscape—what I see when I close my eyes: a single moment in my heart that, in reality, was formed over many journeys.