The Other Riviera: Liguria & Amalfi

Inspired by years of travelling the Italian coastline by car, scooter, boat and on foot, this work brings together memories of Liguria and the Amalfi Coast into a single imagined landscape. Rather than depicting a specific place, it captures the colours, rhythm and atmosphere that remained long after the journey ended.

The composition was reconstructed from my travel sketches before being painted on canvas. I then hand-painted and collaged each brightly coloured window, person and boat individually on top of the painting, capturing the vivid colours and contrasts that return when I close my eyes and, in the blink of an eye, relive those many journeys and happy memories along the Italian coast.The feeling of pure joy.