This piece explores the landscape as process – part of a series.

Rather than depicting a specific place, this painting operates as a threshold between ground and atmosphere, between built form and organic process. Layers of the earth build up and are scratched away – as in my work with permaculture – in an ever evolving surface condition.

‚Weathering Terrain‘ depicts this process

Multi Media on canvas art bord 30 x 24 cm

This piece explores the landscape as process – part of a series.

Rather than depicting a specific place, this painting operates as a threshold between ground and atmosphere, between built form and organic process. Layers of the earth build up and are scratched away – as in my work with permaculture – in an ever evolving surface condition.

‚Lightness‘ depicts this process

Multi Media on canvas art bord 30 x 24 cm

This piece explores the landscape as process – part of a series.

Rather than depicting a specific place, this painting operates as a threshold between ground and atmosphere, between built form and organic process. Layers of the earth build up and are scratched away – as in my work with permaculture – in an ever evolving surface condition.

‚Symbiotic Mater‘ depicts this process

Multi Media on canvas art bord 30 x 24 cm

This piece explores the landscape as process – part of a series.

Rather than depicting a specific place, this painting operates as a threshold between ground and atmosphere, between built form and organic process. Layers of the earth build up and are scratched away – as in my work with permaculture – in an ever evolving surface condition.

‚Strata‘ depicts this process

Multi Media on canvas art bord 30 x 24 cm

Santa Maria Toscana is a place to experience nature and art focused workshops, including self-sustaining organic gardening and cooking, together with creative arts activities.
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The luminous yellow gestures perform as architectural interventions—insertions into a pre-existing terrain. They disrupt the pastoral continuity of the landscape, creating zones of attention and questioning the neutrality of nature.

The painting proposes that each field is already a site of layered histories, actions, and constructions.

Oil 20 x 20 cm on board

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The sky settles heavily onto the land, compressing distance and time. Light filters through layered atmospheres, revealing the landscape as a continuous process—formed, eroded, and renewed by passing weather.

Watercolor 23 x 35 cm on Fabriano 300g/m2 Hot Press Satin

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This piece reflects the liminal space between night and day — a threshold where perception changes and forms emerge differently.

‚At the Shift of the Morning‘ examines how light transforms our sense of place.

Acrylic on bord 15 x 15 cm

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Nature is intrinsically local and grounds us in space and time. In the landscape of Tuscany, we can observe a delicate balance between the cultivated and the natural. The natural providing thresholds and borders between the cultivated.

Oil on canvas 30 x 50 cm

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Santa Maria Toscana aims to create a place to experience self-sustaining organic gardening and cooking, together with creative arts activities. The house has been renovated and the barn structure converted to studio spaces for creative arts activities. 

The design of the gardens focused on creating new edible, medicinal and flower gardens that complement the surrounding built and natural environment. The creation of natural spatial transitions, the definition of zones and specific spaces as well as water management were the key challenges.

Each garden area has a different character and relation to the surrounding landscape. Two new main patios were created to serve the house and studio as adjacent outdoor spaces. At the studio the small garden is peaceful, shaded and contained. The front of the house has an expansive panorama view across the olive orchard and the fields and valleys beyond—the terrace extending the entire length.  

A dry-wall system, using reclaimed local tuff stone, was implemented in order to terrace the steep hillside to the South-West. The terracing not only mitigates water use and distribution, but also forms plantable, accessible land area.

A new dry-wall terrace was created to the East in order to mitigate drainage problems, keeping water away from the house. This dry-wall frames the house and forms a border between the gravel covered work area, behind the studios, and the kitchen garden. 

Border gardens were created at the newly terraced areas. The planting consists of perennial Mediterranean (medicinal) herbs, flowers and bushes, with emphasis on very hardy, low water need plants. The border gardens are not watered additionally.

The kitchen garden has an open and an enclosed area. The enclosure protects from wild animals and serves for more sensitive crops—the structure was inherited and modified. The open garden area is planted with larger crops such as corn, potatoes, melon. A micro-drip system is installed at ground level.

Fruit trees are located in the area surrounding the kitchen garden and include figs, peaches, pomegranates, kaki and quince.