“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
— Miles Davis

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
— Henry David Thoreau

A collection of paintings drawn from Romina’s personal life between 2018 and 2021, depicting friends, and fun places and spaces.

She considers her small circle of friends the true maestros of everyday life, each with a gift for making the ordinary beautiful. So most of these are gifts to them. These works are now scattered across the globe and represent her early exercises in seeing.

Untitled, 2020

48 x 26 inches

oil on canvas

Srini, 2020

graphite on paper

20 x 20 inches

for Srini

Maddie (in Alla Prima), 2021

oil on panel

20 x 16 inches

painting for Maddie at the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, France 

juliet balcony studio: painting Cailin on the Upper West Side in 2019

Andy in Grisaille, 2020

7 x 7 inches

oil on canvas

painted in Paris for Laura

First Bouquet from Peter, 2021

oil on canvas

24 x 18 inches

Flowers from Kaitlin, 2020

7 x 5 inches

graphite and ribbon on paper

Flowers from Vickie, 2020 

oil on canvas

24 x 18 inches

moral of the story: if you send Romina flowers, she will probably send them back in 2-ishD

Watermelon Hands (After Rodin), 2020

oil on canvas

20 x 16 inches

painted for tía Janet in Chicureo, Chile

Chess Match in a Virginia Cabin, 2019 (above)

charcoal on paper

26 x 23 inches

Bluegreen in Black-and-White, 2019 (below)

charcoal on paper

26 x 23 inches

both drawings left in a cabin 

painted in the most precarious way possible, with love