Memories of Japan

This landscape, painted in colour watercolour, is inspired by the traditional aesthetics of China and Japan, where nature is not only scenery, but spirit. The scene shows a tranquil river flowing through the paper as if it were flowing in a dream. An arched bridge connects the two banks, and on it walk small figures in traditional dress: kimonos or hanfu, serene faces, slow steps. In the background, almost as if emerging from the mist, the curved roof of a temple is insinuated, silently guarding the history of the place.

The watercolour technique has been worked with softness and breath. The brushstrokes are loose but meditated, evoking oriental landscape painting (shanshui) where the important thing is not fidelity to detail, but the balance between full and empty, between what is shown and what is suggested. The water, the silent protagonist, reflects the sky with barely defined spots, while the colours – earthy, soft greens, diluted blues – accompany the calm of the whole.

This drawing is not just an image, but an invitation to meditation. Like the old painted scrolls that were unrolled little by little, this landscape proposes a slow journey, where each element has its place, its weight, its pause.

It is a tribute to the ephemeral, to harmony, and to the beauty that dwells in the simple.

Hummingbird on flower

This small drawing captures a fleeting moment: a hummingbird stopped in mid-flight, its beak immersed in a flower. The work is executed in watercolour, ink and coloured marker, a combination that combines the ethereal with the precise. The watercolour brings transparency and movement, evoking the lightness of the air and the speed of fluttering wings. The ink, on the other hand, fixes the structure and gives character to the outline, while the felt-tip pen introduces vibrant, almost electric touches to the feathers and the flower.

Despite its small size, the drawing is full of energy. The hummingbird, a symbol of the ephemeral and the sacred in many cultures, represents here that almost invisible moment that passes before our eyes without our noticing. The gesture of approaching a flower, an everyday occurrence in nature, becomes an almost ceremonial act.

Each stroke was designed so as not to break the delicacy of the moment. The lightness of the water, the speed of the colour, the decisiveness of a line: everything converges to construct not only an image, but a pause.

Because sometimes the smallest thing contains the most intense thing.