La Raccolta

Paper hands (collage and acrylic on canvas) 2012

Autumn in Umbria never stops. There are more festa's than you can shake a stick at and what starts with the Vendemmia (grape harvest) finishes with La Raccolta (the olive harvest)  with a smattering of chestnut gathering in between (this no doubt has a name of its own but it unknown to me). We are busily picking olives which is a pleasurable task but I am itching to get back to the studio.

Novello d'Autore 2012 di Di Filippo

Novello d'Autore 2012 di Di Filippo

On Saturday we went to Perugia to the glam Palazzo Priori for launch of the Novello of Di Filippo wines who are based here in Umbria. Six of my paintings feature as the labels. It was really lovely evening almost because I was persuaded to speak for some time in Italian about the works, not for the faint hearted. The wine is available from tomorrow - 6 November. All the works are available on my website www.rkwilliams.com together with other works I made as part of this series.

In a spin

Head - oil on gessoed paper 2010

All go. Finishing the framing of the Di Filippo wines Novello d'Autore paintings for Saturday evening's launch in Perugia.

being watched

standing stone

Still fixating on Mt Subasio above Assisi, there is something so open about the the place so disturbingly vacant, soleless and wild and yet all  there is this hidden or semi hidden humanity. You can be alone up there but it always feels to me as if you're being watched. It really is the stuff of Peter Cushing....

Yellow

Reading Van Gogh's letters and thinking about yellow. I find it a disturbing colour, not because of v.G. I'm not sure why - to me it is not sunny (usually) unless its a very warm or dirty yellow. Anything bright and acidy I can hardly bear to look at. Some time ago I painted this wounded dog. The only colour I could think to describe his pain was yellow.

Valentino's Dog

me, monti and the renaissance

me, monti and the renaissance - acrylic and collage on paper

here's hoping

Automaton

self as an automaton

Not a lot of time at the moment. The stopwatch is on.