Following a conference in Brussels, I went to Milan hoping to see da Vinci’ s The Last Supper at the Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie.
THE WORLD IN BRUSH & PEN
Hiroshi Shimazaki
Winter Bliss Milan Duomo, Italy, 2002
Watercolour on paper, 31 x 41 cm
Following a conference in Brussels, I went to Milan hoping to see da Vinci’ s The Last Supper at the Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie.
Alas, it was impossible, the reason long forgotten— no reservation, closed that day of the week? But all was not lost. Piazza Duomo was glorious in the falling snow with its imposing, lit Gothic Duomo. In a sense, this is an incomplete work. The doors should be darker, but I left them as is, as I felt the painting captured the mood I wished to convey.
ARTA member Hiroshi Shimazaki is a geographer / artist who has been practising watercolour landscape sketching and painting for sixty years. Here he offers one window into an artist’ s mind.
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