Tanaro II: the river in July, one month on (Anno Tanaro)

On 1 July 2026 the sky over Val Tanaro was clear. No haze, sharp mountains at the end of the valley. That day’s reference photograph became Tanaro II — oil on cotton canvas, 60×80 cm, painted with her fingers. The second of twelve.

One month after Tanaro I, the same point on the river is a different place. “It had been weeks of real heat, so the river dropped and rocks surfaced that I had never seen, some of them huge,” Keili says. “There is much more green than in June, where there was more blue: I moved the water from turquoise to emerald green, and the browns and ochres came in among the stones.”

This is the project’s first real comparison. Two canvases, same point, same size, same technique: June gave haze and cold colours, July gives bared rocks and greens. Put them side by side and you watch the month pass.

See Tanaro II on the painting page. The full project: Anno Tanaro.

About the technique: what finger painting is — history, technique and famous finger painters.