... and I mean "the path" literally as well as inspirationally.
You want a view? Here, you gotta earn it baby! No elevators, seniors' scooters, escalators or any other type of "UP" methods of human body transport, just what you've got on you.
Just so you know, you've it good - by this first photo, we are now half way there to more inspiration. This journey starts from just outside Susie's front door on Via San Francesco in Vernazza - she lives up a good few "stories" by this point.
Let's go!
heading around the first bend...
gotta stop and enjoy this...
heading around the next bend...
up the next path...
you gotta look over the edge to see more things...
her studio is in the former church which is also Vernazza's city hall now - the bells still echo thru the hills on the hour and half hour, the new church is down in the village in Piazza Marconi. Her studio space is in the former priest's residence before the church was converted into what it is today.
outdoor "lobby" of church
Ok. We're ready to enter the church... but we're not there yet...
outdoor courtyard inside the church
she's got a lot of free reign around here... they like her!
just in case you need a rest, I haven't included yet another flight of stairs in this foto journey... you can thank me later.
pass by and overlook Vernazza's elementary school playground... (you'd THINK school would be fun with this view!)
Susie and Jake come to the door and...
yep... go up more stairs.
Oh, but WORTH IT!
Sepia tones can take you back in time. Never seen the sea so black as it was this day - it was the morn after a big thunder and lightening storm.
former kitchen... now another work space for her
her main work room... I'd love to rip up her floor and frame it! (she's laid a canvas sheet over the stone)
Charcoal sketches...
Another work space outdoors high up on the church "catwalk"... that sounds rather ironic!
Jake's "running room" on a rainy day (part of the outside area of her studio) - I had to catch him running... he's so sweet!
happy "Jake prints"
ready to start new pieces... at the moment, most of her work is at her exhibition in Genova.
Heading back down now...
Good exercise, beautiful view, gorgeous paintings - and also lovin' that floor of hers - refreshed my inspiration once again!
[even Jake has learned "il calcio" (soccer, or football for you Europeans!) ] :
2 comments:
Hi Crissandra, not only did I meet you through Expat, but also through my friend Leah's blog. you have some nice stuff. Enjoy all your adventures :)
Thanks Elora!
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