Subject 6: Pictures from Italy

In 2018 I visited Italy for the first time.  I was so taken with what I saw, especially the unique and startling city of Venice that I visited again in March 2019 for a week.  So I have seen Venice briefly in early winter and early spring.

About Venice Henry James wrote in an 1882 essay, “There is notoriously nothing more to be said on the subject…I am not sure there is not a certain impudence in pretending to add anything to it”.  In answer to those words even if I can say nothing new I hope to interpret Venice as I saw and experienced it.

I warmly invite you to peruse my newly updated website where more than 550 drawings and paintings are on show – over 40 years of work. https://juliepodstolski.com/

“Early One Morning”  January 2019  35 x 28 cm
“A Room with a View”   January 2019  31.5 x 25 cm
“The Remains of the Day”  February 2019  36.5 x 31 cm
“Silent Night”   May 2019  32.5 x 29 cm
“Sunrise Reflected”   June 2019  35 x 35 cm
“Winter Rain” October 2019  24 x 20 cm
“Deep in Castello”.  August 2019   31 x 26 cm
“A View from Lido” November 2019 (from Lido)  39.5 x 32 cm
“Eventide” December 2019  34.5 x 42.5 cm
“Look Out” (Rome) December 2019    28.6 x 30 cm
“Most Serene”  January 2020    33.5 x 48.5 cm
“Ascension” February 2020   36.5 x 36.5 cm
“Quiet Time”    April 2020   33.5 x 53.3 cm
“The Hospital Cat”  June 2020   30.5 x 27 cm
“Composition with Cat”  June 2020   32 x 29 cm
“All the World’s a Stage” August 2020    32.5 x 48.5 cm

“Another Time” is not quite Italy but just across the border in the French Alps; the town of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc.

“Another Time”  September 2020   25 x 31 cm

Back again in Italy;  the Brera district in Milan.

“Good Vibrations” October 2020 35 x 29 cm
“Cornered” October 2020 (a piece of Milan street art) 28 x 31.5 cm
“Summer Rain” November 2020 24 x 31 cm
“An Autumn Feast” November 2020 25.5 x 28 cm
“An Italian Dream” December 2020 41 x 29 cm (Vernazza)
“Morning has Broken” 40.5 x 29 cm January 2021
“Wet Verona” 21.5 x 25.5 cm February 2021
“Europe Endless” 23.5 x 20 cm. February 2021