Sara Calcagno

I'm still working on my lilies, trying to speed up before they wither! A race against time... It's a canvas of 80 x 80 cm, oil colors by Michael Hardings, Windsor & Newton and Mussini

Between a stroke and anotherone, I've been translating in Italian Fred Ross' splendid speech on the Renaissance of the Realist Movement in Art. For the link to my blog page where this speech is translated: http://www.saracalcagno.it/blog/perche-il-realismo-il-magnifico-discorso-di-fred-ross-sulla-rinascita-del-movimento-realista/

Personally I have a weakness for plein air painting. I like to wake up at dawn. Take my easel and basket with colors and brushes and go. It responds to my need of adventure and of staying outside in the green. Fresh air. Silence. And the amazing beauty of Nature predominant everywhere on the sleeping...Read all

In this last month I've painted several monochrome portrait sketches in oil. I had a lot of fun in painting them! They are all 20 x 20 cm or 20 x 30 cm

I do most of my paintings in the studio. I work on more paintings at the same time. Some of my paintings are finished after some weeks. Others after some months. Others after some years. Others, more probably, will never be finished. My painting studio is located in Tavernelle, in the municipality of...Read all

I'm working on a new painting. The idea came me this summer and now I'm realizing the sketches.. I hope to finish it in two weeks time. In photo you can see a detail of the sketch in characoal and oil.

I would like to give some more information about my painting "Queen of Flowers", which is also the first painting of the series Queens of Flowers. I began the painting "Queen of Flowers" in 2013 and I finished it only some months ago! Or maybe it is not yet finished.. who knows ;-) It is painted with...Read all

"Ubi tu Gaius ibi ego Gaia" Wherever you will be, I will be.. 40 x 60 cm, Oil on Canvas by Sara Calcagno.

After a long silence.. to come back to painting! Here is one of the paintings new on the easel..

On October 11-12 in Palazzo Mistrot in Villarbasse (Turin) took place the Solo Exhibition of Sara Calcagno.

Next to a rill, a small creature with a chubby face and a flowery head full of daisies, wild roses and Forget-me-not played looked at me smiling, while sitting on the ground and playing with small colored pebbles .. Princess of Flowers oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm by Sara Calcagno

I was walking in the woods at sunset. The last rays of the sun bathed the air with golden reflections. Suddenly I heard, far away, a beautiful voice singing. As I was intringued, I walked over following the notes.. and, from the edge of a clearing lit by the setting sun, I saw her standing: the...Read all

A herd of horses and centaurs was providing water in the stream .. From the bank went up a creature of dazzling beauty .. with the statuesque body of a white horse, the bust of a woman and the head from which bloomed roses and golden foliage Her gaze met mine She was clearly the head of the herd because...Read all

Wild and untamed, I imagine this Queen of Flowers peeking through the high trees of the forest.. surprised by the presence of someone observing her .. I don't think she's ever seen any other human being before .. it was only a moment.. I caught a glimpse through the trees... and I couldn't see well,...Read all

"I have a house in the woods here in Tuscany, which I love with all my heart ... Some time ago I stood there lost in my dreams as usual.. and I imagined that the forest was inhabited by strange creatures .. with all the beauty of women.. but also half flower, leaves, branches.. almost divine creatures...Read all