Local Artist Contemplates the Arab Spring

June 22, 2012

Portland Phoenix, review by Nicolas Schroeder, June 22, 2012.

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#tbt to a special weekend getaway @mimigallo Miss having you on my timezone already! (and our little neighbourhood in castello!)

L'arte di Blub a Firenze. Everytime I visit Firenze artist Blub has a new character plastered to the walls with a snorkel on. I'm sure my American friends will appreciate this one too! #deepwater #abe #firenze #streetart #blub

amazing Roman acquaduct in Spoleto #spoleto #spoletofestival #daytrip #awesome

Rana cat ❤ summertime #catsofistanbul #catsofinstagram #cihangir #kedi #mood #cats #lovelife

dramatic #cloud formations on my morning #walk #summertime

My copy of this book by American painter Ian McKibbin White arrived in the mail! It was a joy to design and working with Ian a real pleasure. Now that it's complete, I will miss hearing all his interesting plein air painting stories on skype! Fortunetly, all his recollections and reflections on painting, the American landscape and his career as the director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are in the book. Friends in Maine, his launch exhibition and book signing will be held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art on June 28th 5:30-7:30pm. There will also be a cloth hardcover special edition available the event. 324 pages (268 color plates) 10 x 8 inches oh! It's also available on Amazon with prime shipping #american #painter #bookdesign #landscape #oilpainter #maine #art #mainevent #bowdoin #booklaunch #launch #congratulations

On the summer solstice these huge, beautiful sunflowers opened. Each are taller than a person and they rotate together during the day to face the sun #awe #solstice #sun #life #nature #summer #italy #umbria #beauty #assisi

The smell of the roses in our neighbours' garden is wafting through our windows on a warm breeze and it is heaven. The garden's caretaker is an older gentleman and his wife. He is Rana's favourite person to watch out the window. I like to know he is around too. When tending to the garden he wears casual clothes, but in autumn he gives tours of the vineyard and wears a smart wool vest and a cap. #assisi #neighborhood #expat #italy

Getting hot for the Rana in her felt pod! Have to make her a summer variation! Maybe some kind of tent... #catsofistanbul #catsofinstagram

It was a pleasure to paint the cover for Maine writer Jefferson Navicky's recently released fantastic book The Paper Coast. I made the first version of this painting, Endless Sea, during a residency on the remote and arrestingly beautiful Monhegan Island. Friends in Maine- Jefferson will be reading at Quill Books in Westbrook on June 7th at 7pm along with Wendy Cannella and there will be live music too! #monheganisland #ilovemaine

Miniature Paintings

ISIS Loots at Nimrud, 2016

egg tempera on panel

20 x 13 cm

SOLD

Militants Play in the US Embassy Pool, Tripoli

egg tempera on panel, 2015

18 x 10.5 cm, color study

final work on panel, SOLD

Migrant Shipwreck off Lampedusa, Mediterranean Sea

egg tempera on panel, 2015

10 x 15.25 cm

SOLD

Gezi: Protests on Istiklal, Istanbul

egg tempera on panel, 2015

18 x 10.5 cm, SOLD

Al-Ghouta Chemical Attack, Syria

egg tempera on panel, 2015

18 x 10.5 cm, SOLD

Keleti Station @ Real Art Ways

February 21 - June 30, 2016

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"Sara Dreams Aleppo," Watercolors

Original watercolors, 100% of sales donated to Small Projects Istanbul - for Syria. Contact me to purchase.

Sara Dreams Aleppo 2

Sara: "I have a dream that is amazing. I was walking in he street, and there is an army and I was trapped from behind. I was blocked on both sides."

Sara Dreams Aleppo 3

Sara: "I am sacred of dreams. I am walking in a house, and then some snipers stand in a circle around me. And then, they shoot me! One of them shoots me here, one shoots me here, and one shoots me here."

Sara Dreams Aleppo 1

Sara: "There are lots of dreams, nice dreams. There's one where I was riding a horse. I'm running and I am happy. It's really clean... There are flowers, people come and start singing."

An ongoing series of water colors based on the dreams of a young girl, Sara, who is five years old and lives on one of the front-lines in Aleppo with her mom, two older sisters and one older brother. Her father is a commander in the free Syrian army. She was inter-viewed in the documentary Children of Aleppo for PBS in February 2014.