The photo above is from a recent stay in Tirol on both the Austrian and Italian sides. I discovered Tirol during a long drive across Europe a few years ago to visit all of my favorite places within a few weeks of each other. In the summer of 2006 I drove from Copenhagen across Germany to Provence where I stayed in a small town called, Meyreuil, where I had lived in the early 90s. It was interesting to see Meyreuil after just painting a week earlier in Bornholm, Denmark - one of my favorite places to visit and paint. I enjoyed the chance to compare the light and the landscape of Provence with Bornholm. I made this crazy drive because I wanted to compare Scandinavia to other parts of Europe where I’ve worked. Normally, I see one place like, France or Bornholm, in the summer and then another say Tuscany, in the fall. I continued from Meyreuil to Buonconvento, a small town near Siena, and then when I headed north from Tuscany, I crossed into Austria using the Brenner Pass. My stay in Austria, specifically Stubaital, just a week ago was a chance to have another look at Tirol after realizing on my 2006 trip that this landscape is for me…The 2006 trip continued from Austria to Berlin and then again to Denmark and Gothenborg, Sweden. It’s a wonderful long story which will eventually become another post; photos and ideas from that trip continue to emerge as paintings in my Palo Alto studio. For now, this is just a glimpse of how I’m living the dream.
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