První vítr (The First Wind)

Description

The First Breeze from the “Italian Diary” series

The most striking painting, featuring an orange sail. Dynamic, sunny, full of energy and movement. The title refers to that first moment when one feels the sea breeze.

“Italian Diary” is a series of summer painting studies created during the artist’s stay in Italy. They are a personal record of moments when the sea, sun, wind, and the distinctive atmosphere of the Italian coast come together.

Her inspiration came primarily from the sea, the changing light, sailboats, lemons, and the intense colors of the Mediterranean landscape.

The artist captures not only specific motifs but, above all, their mood and her own experience—the moment when the image of reality begins to dissolve into color, light, and memory.

The uniqueness of the series also lies in the way it was created. The studies were painted directly on the beach, in immediate contact with the landscape, rather than in a studio. Seawater was also used during the creative process, thus becoming a direct part of the individual works and symbolically imbuing them with the actual place of their creation.

The paintings are executed on natural canvas, whose texture and natural hue remain intentionally exposed in some areas.

These exposed areas are not signs of incompleteness; on the contrary, they emphasize the character of painterly studies created directly in nature, where the image is not separated from its surroundings. The natural canvas becomes another layer of expression, evoking sand, stone, a sun-warmed landscape, and the rawness of the moment.

“Italian Diary” is thus not a conventional pictorial record of the Italian coast. It is a visual diary of feelings—fragments of summer, the sea, and light captured right where they were created. Each sketch carries not only an image of Italy but also a trace of a specific moment, landscape, and sea.