Italy travel – Page 4 – Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan

Taking A Break By The Ligurian Sea

Until we meet again soon! (Video: my ink and watercolour miniature and larger works; music is “I Giorni” by Angele Dubeau & La Pieta)

Travel-Inspired Art

Forza Italia

Watching the news coming out of Italy is heart-wrenching and surreal. If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’m deeply in love with Italy. I have painted scenes […]

Travel-Inspired Art

How A Book Inspired A Painting

… Siena was to me as intimate as a locket you would wear around your neck and yet as complex as a maze. – Hisham Matar, “A Month In Siena” […]

Miniature Art

A Little Tuscan Love Moment

Fifteen years ago, I got kissed on this spot in Pienza, Italy. I was lost in the vista from this winding promenade high above a wall. The sunny Tuscan valley […]

Miniature Art

Taking My Sweet, Sweet Time

During a summer day the five towns of Italy’s Cinque Terre can be bustling and crowded, but once the day-trippers and beach-goers depart, these towns take on a very different […]

Miniature Art

A Fisherman’s Door

SEA You challenge time since the dawn of the world. These words were carved in Italian into the stone plaque beside this door facing the docks in the beautiful seaside […]

Travel-Inspired Art

Manarola, Take Me Away!

Last year, I undertook an exercise of identifying the themes in my art – what each piece meant to me, what I was attempting to capture or what I had […]

Commissions/Sketchy Memories

More of Those WOW Moments

Much of the art I make revolves around “Wow” moments – moments on my wanderings at home and abroad when I’ve been astonished by beauty, creativity, compassion or great accomplishment. […]

Travel-Inspired Art

Wishing You All Best Of The Season!

Happiest of holidays to you all! Marion (“Da Forli Angel – Passion Tools (2018)”; 5″ x 6″ ink and watercolour; partial passage from Howard Thurman’s The Mood of Christmas)

Commissions/Sketchy Memories

Tell Me Your Stories

I love when my stories behind the art I make are replaced with your stories! Upon seeing the art, you’ve shared stories of having visited these places – where you […]

Miniature Art

Going It Alone

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than […]

Miniature Art

Travel WITH Friends, Travel TO Friends

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. -Tim Cahill Over the last few weeks, I’ve been curating my miniature paintings for my first solo show, looking for […]

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