Cinque Terre
In 2011, my wife and I went to Cinque Terre, Italy, starting our trip to Milan. The paintings are primarily of Manarola a little village that I completely fell in love with!
In the painting of Manarola’s village square; you can see a man and his cat sitting by the church. They would argue all the time particularly when a car was coming the man would try and move the cat at which time a fight broke out, once the car had gone past they settled back to there positions. When it was time the go the man got up, and the cantankerous cat followed.
Some of the scences include the view from up the hill next to the vineyards and Corniglia.
Positano 2025
This painting took me two full days — and countless espresso breaks — from the balcony of our little apartment in Positano. Every brushstroke is a memory of our time on the Amalfi Coast.
While I painted, Snooze was off exploring — from the Roman Villa buried beneath the Cathedral to attempting the Baia di Leranto walk near Nerano. When the buses didn’t quite cooperate, she found a “taxi” from Colli S. Pietro… whose driver made three stops along the way to deliver fresh fish to locals!
We fully embraced La Dolce Vita — from the waiter at our favourite Il Galli who kindly corrected Snooze’s Italian (turns out she ordered grilled peach instead of grilled fish) — to the endless parade of traffic below us: honking SITA buses, buzzing scooters, waving tourists, and even a Weimaraner joyfully squished between his humans on a Vespa.
The Amalfi Coast has a way of stealing your heart — one stair, one view, one laugh at a time.