Italy travel – Page 5 – Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan

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 […]

Miniature Art

History Repurposed

“In my town, we tear down every old building. It’s a disgrace!”, the woman said as she looked over my miniature paintings of Italian architecture. This isn’t the first time […]

Miniature Art

Portovenere Poetry

…and now, fair Italy! ⁠Thou art the Garden of the World, the Home ⁠Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree; ⁠Even in thy desert, what is like to thee? […]

Miniature Art

Open Door Policy

It is said that when you travel you become braver. Is that true of you? In my case, I’ve found that the more I travel, the more confident and brave […]

Travel-Inspired Art

L’amore di La Morra

Lovers of Italian red wine will know the town of La Morra in the Piemonte region, famous for its Barolo and Barbera varietals. But if you don’t fancy wine, is […]

Miniature Art

Tuscan’t Help Myself!

Do you most often travel to new places or to your favourites? On a recent podcast of The Bittersweet Life, the hosts discussed a traveller’s inclination to revisit the same […]

Miniature Art

Doing The Laundry, Venice-Style

Doing the laundry is not one of my favourite chores. Seeing laundry flapping in the wind on an outdoor clothesline, however… is one of my favourite images. Taking in frozen […]

Miniature Art

Blissed Out In Bellagio

When you hear the words “Lake Como”, what comes to mind? According to a recent New York Times story about Lake Como, you’d be in the majority if you said “George […]

Travel-Inspired Art

While Visions of Red Wine Danced in Her Head

Maybe it’s all the holiday get-togethers… Or maybe it’s the cold weather upon us in Canada… My thoughts have turned to red wine! I don’t drink a lot of it […]

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