Why return to the same place twelve times.

Painting is usually about finding new subjects — new landscapes, new faces, new moments to capture. Anno Tanaro is the opposite. For twelve months I will paint the same stretch of river, returning each month with fingers, oils, and canvas. The point on the Tanaro is the one closest to my home — a place I pass several times each week, in every weather, in every light.

What changes is not the place but the time. The same rocks. The same line of trees. The same horizon of mountains. But the water shifts, the leaves arrive and depart, the snow comes high then low then high again, the light angles roll through the year. Twelve paintings will be a record of those changes — not as a picture-book of seasons but as a single subject seen at twelve angles of duration.

Painted with my fingers, on canvas, with water-mixable oils.

Finger painting is my signature technique. Since 2018 I have painted exclusively without brushes — every fingertip in direct contact with the canvas. The colour I use is water-mixable oil from Winsor & Newton and Holbein — no turpentine, no solvents, no fumes — and the canvas is triple-primed linen.

What the technique gives me is connection (nothing between me and the surface), speed (a fingertip is a more direct tool than a brush), and a texture of paint that brushes cannot reproduce. The thick impasto reads as alive.

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Originals available for private acquisition.

Each finger painting in the series is one of one — signed, dated, and offered for private acquisition. For inquiries, contact me directly.

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