ABOUT
I began painting in watercolors over twenty years ago, in part to understand why I found myself attracted to watercolors over other media when visiting a museum or gallery. Having had no formal studio art education, I took watercolor and drawing classes at the Arlington Center for the Arts and the Concord Art Association and in the intervening years have attended numerous painting workshops in the Boston area, Maine, California, England, Scotland, and Italy.
I'm temperamentally drawn to certain aspects of the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, specifically its focus on finding beauty in the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. I tend to paint old buildings, ruins, weathered boats, or other man-made objects whose worn and crumbling surfaces suggest time's passage. When painting a landscape, I will often include architectural or other man-made elements that suggest the notion of time.
For me, the challenge of watercolor painting is in finding a style that will allow for rendering the surface of things without losing the medium's characteristic freshness, transparency, and luminosity.
CONTACT
To inquire about the availability and pricing of my works, write to dancianfarini@gmail.com.
