Mandy Main

Civitavecchia, Oil Painting

2022

Artist Comments
Artist Mandy Main travels extensively and loves being able to relive her trips by making paintings of them. "This dramatic perspective, with its warm colors, captures the beauty of an ancient town in central Italy," says Mandy. Old Medieval streets were made for carts, not cars, leaving only a narrow slit to see the frothy white clouds rising in the sky. The warm blue heaven enhances the buildings' complementary ochre and sienna palette. She paints this with layers of glazes to impart a warm, luminous glow.

About the Artist
Mandy Main is an art historian and landscape painter based in the Southern California desert. She has long been passionate about 19th Century American landscape paintings, which has been influential in her artistic practice. Mandy works in series, generally three paintings at a time. Her process begins with a vision of a place she has been, but she takes creative liberties with the aesthetic details. The artist is captivated by light and shadow, and strives to instill her work with moody drama through the representation of these elements. Using layers of paint and glazes, Mandy achieves mesmerizing atmospheric depth, encouraging the viewer to gaze and be still.

Words that describe this painting: travel, architecture, Europe, Italy, buildings, town, perspective, facade, sky, window, oilpaint, modern, architecture, travel, modern , oil painting, orange

Civitavecchia
Mandy Main
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished black edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2022
14 in. h x 11 in. w x 1.5 in. d
1 lbs. 0 oz.