“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