Three Graces

"Body, Mind, Soul - dancing" after Raphael's "Three Graces" , oil on canvas 60x80cm.

"VIII

Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

William Butler Yeats - from "The Tower"

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Mousseline

"I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul."

Pablo Neruda - Sonnet XVII

"Mousseline" - oil on canvas 40x60cm.

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Venera

"Venera" -oil on canvas 60x80cm - an image of the goddess of love and family, caught in a secret illegitimate moment when she is magically stopping Time, spied by the worried eyes of Cupid. She is a white radiating vision, with hidden symbols of her birth (the white foam dentelle...) and of her age as old as time (her opalescent white hair).

Exhibited at Untitled Artists Fair London 2014 in Chelsea Old Town Hall.

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