The stages of my career as an artist – Part 8

Series of articles on the different stages of my career as an artist. Florence 2019-20.

Paintings on image above from left to right:

• Él y ella. 35×52 cm (available)
• Women 2020. 36X51,5 cm (available)
• Mujer con dos caras. 36×52 cm (sold)
• Sisters. 36×51,5 cm (available)

In 2013, I stopped making art, and I left the Art Studio where I used to work.
In 2018, someone gave me the opportunity to have a solo exhibition in an alternative space next to the Biennale, in Venice. My first answer was “no”. After a few days, I reconsidered the proposal and I accepted.

The exhibition was a success. I was back.
The pieces I created during 2019 are all small scale, and most of them are portraits. In 2020, I mostly draw.

Cousins

Oil on canvas. Florence 2020. Inspired by my daughter and her cousin during summer 2020. The painting displays something I see often and that doesn’t depend on the age: spending time together but alone.

Woman in Piazza del Carmine

Mix on canvas. Florence 2020. Inspired by an elderly woman I met in Florence while waiting for my laundry to finish. She talked to me just for a few minutes, which were enough to feel her deep sense of loneliness and isolation. She had a shy smile on her sweet face, an ambiguous smile. The painting doesn’t depict a lonely elderly woman but a young one, a woman with copper tears. I gifted her with eternal youth. I never saw her again.

State of paintings

Most paintings are available for sale. I have sold only 2 of them. (I keep 2 works in my private collection).

They are in good conditions, apart from the 2 pieces in my private collection which have been created using an old piece of canvas (wrinkled canvas).

Available paintings

Sold paintings

Private Collection

Get in touch if you are interested in the available paintings!

I see you in my next post!

Ciao!

Raquel Yunta