natura morta – Sara Calcagno

An autumn painting with pumpkins and sunflowers

Sara Calcagno — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:39:00 +0000

Still life with pumpkin and sunflowers. Oil painting by Sara Calcagno, 30 x 40 cm. Last autumn I painted this still life study with pumpking and sunflowers in one session.. only in a second moment, I refined the painting.

I love autumn color and autumn fruits and vegetables. I love autumn. I think maybe is my favorite season together with late spring.. Anyway, if you think about it, both autumn and late spring are magical moments for nature! Lots of different seasonal fruits and flowers are at their best and very mature and so rich in their colors. The painting has already found a collector.

Peonies’ Dream, the idealized memory of peonies

Sara Calcagno — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:13:57 +0000

With this painting I tried to paint the idealized memory of a peony garden: the dream of a peony garden. It is a study and it isn’t so big but neither so small.. I enjoyed with experimenting on this piece.. I finished it some days ago.

Peonies are such a poetic flower, with all those gigantic light petals. They amaze with their size and with their splendour. I adore going in peony gardens and absorbing their energy and their beauty. They are such beautiful and poetic flowers! For some years, in the past, I lived in Montefiascone (Viterbo, Italy) and in april and may I used to go very often to Centro Botanico Moutan in Vitorchiano. There they grow all kinds of peonies, they say they have the biggest collection of chines peonies in Europe! I don’t know, if it’s the biggest. For sure it is astonishing. They have such a gorgeous collection .. you can litterally walk among peonies high like yourself for hours.. This year I would have loved to go again but due to covid lockdown, we couldn’t move from our region. Pity but it will be for next year! I was lucky that my neighbor has the most amazing peonies and I could make so many pics.

Hope you will enjoy this study. It was funny to paint it and the result is what I expected, a little bit dreamy and ethereal.

Peonies’ Dream, oil on canvas by Sara Calcagno, 41 x 22 cm

Merry Christmas!

Sara Calcagno — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 12:55:39 +0000

Siamo arrivati anche quest’anno al Natale e, in questo periodo, è quasi una tradizione che io dipinga un soggetto natalizio (in foto solo un dettaglio del dipinto).

Quest’anno ho scelto una natura morta molto ricca di oggetti. Una stella di natale, un orsachiotto, uno schiaccianoci, un pupazzetto che danza, diversi libri, un piccolo angioletto da appendere all’albero, del nastro natalizio, delle pigne, una candela accesa, una tazza di tè, delle palline di natale sparse, un taccuino, una penna, una lampada e poi stoffe, due quadri natalizi, una scatola di biscotti.

Nel dipinto ho cercato di dare un aspetto a quello che per me è lo spirito natalizio, la magia del Natale, la magia che tutti noi da bambini immaginavamo e che la bambina dentro di me immagina anche oggi.

E dunque.. la possibilità che questi pupazzi inanimati nelle notte delle feste possano prendere vita e danzare, suonare, parlare…

Tutto ciò che è possibile immaginare è possibile, qualcuno disse .. Sicuramente lo è per me in un mio dipinto rendo possibile l’impossibile e lascio parlare la bambina dentro di me che cin gli occhi sgranati vede e si aspetta la magia…

Nella foto un dettaglio del dipinto.

La Danza, olio su lino belga, 100 x 60 cm