July 2019

Portraits of Place: Castagno di Piteccio

In July 2019, I spent two weeks in Castagno di Piteccio, a small outdoor museum of a town perched in the Tuscan hills above Pistoia, Italy. I stayed in a home on the side of the mountain with two other artists, exploring the town, eating well, meeting the kind and welcoming people who have made Castagno di Piteccio their home, and creating art. One family graciously offered me the side of their building to paint, where I created a three-panelled “comic layout” mural with scenes of Castagno. This makes up a further chapter of my “Portraits of Place” series, exploring the identity of place through its ecology.

Photos of the mural exhibition are by the talented Rachele Salvioli.