Buonasera,
I hope you’re all well! I’m utterly terrified to announce I have created a new blog called ‘A Painting Occasionally‘. I’ve spent a lifetime wanting to be an ‘artist’ and yet, I’ve been too much of a wimp to show anyone my work. To be honest, the website still needs some fine tuning but if I delay anymore it just wont ever happen!
Due to the earthquake, I’ve had to move to a new apartment. It’s going well and I’ll update in the next few days but one of the positives to come out of it all is having a new artist buddy / landlord on hand to go on field trips with and having a lovely new area to explore.
So the blog is really just a way of charting my progress and hopefully motivating me to improve. I’m still trying to find my style and getting used to new mediums. At the moment I’m in a watercolour phase which is surprisingly tricky!
Anyway, this is just a quick update to point you to the new blog and if you want to receive painting updates, please ‘follow me‘ on that blog.
x
movetoitaly 
I am also an artist afraid to lay claim to such, your work looks beautiful. I am planning on moving to Osimo area this January, I have spent two summers in the area and fell in love with the region. I will be looking for friends to connect with, paint with and have english conversations with, my Italian is just in the infancy stage. Best of luck with your blog!
Hi Patricia! Sorry for the delay and thank you for getting in touch! How exciting about your move! I really love the Osimo area – Osimo is a nice little town in itself (I used to live in neighbouring Camerano) but you’ve got such a lot of lovely places to go and paint – Sirolo, Numana, Portonovo! We’ll have to catch up for a painting session or more. There’s a group of us that like to go out and paint and have been going out on a Tuesday around the local area. It’s a bit further south for you though, annoying if you’ve not got a car but it’s around the Grottamare area. I made friends with language swap buddies who wanted to practice their English and I wanted to practice my Italian – I found everyone really friendly so I hope it goes well for you too and please do get in touch when you’re over and we’ll catch up! 🙂