The Artist's Blog

I like to think that centuries ago, there was a painter who delighted in the beauty of the Monarch as a butterfly, but chose to depict the caterpillars on the roof of a cave. Was he or she also awestruck by the transformation of these little creatures? [...]

The dance of the damselflies continues for two weeks and then is over until the next year, when the squad of beauties returns to re-enact one of the tiny marvels of Nature once again. [...]

To paint it I would have had to kill it, and that would have been a shame since the animal was so beautiful. [...]

I had just turned the soil of compost in a section of my veg garden, making preparations for a pumpkin patch, when a most astonishing sight was revealed to me. [...]

The Luna Moth - Transformation, metamorphosis, and change… [...]

I have never seen a Luna Moth... and I so long to [...]

“Fear always springs from ignorance” Ralph Waldo Emerson [...]

The Horror! Could this really be one of the first of these invasive species now here in our part of Tuscany? The Asian Giant Hornet Vespa Mandarinia. Also known as the “Murder Hornet”. [...]