An Afternoon in the park with the gardener and the psychotherapist, and other paintings from Olinda

An Afternoon in the park with the gardener and the psychotherapist, oil on card, 13 / 14 cm

Convento de São Francisco, Olinda, oil on card, 13.3 / 12 cm unavailable

Trees behind a wall, rain coming, Olinda, oil on card, 11.5 / 9.5 cm  - available

In the park, Olinda, oil on card, 12 / 14 cm  SOLD

Olinda is a very pleasant place, if somewhat touristified.

Something happens to any city when it starts to depend excessively on tourism, which is that it starts to become oddly sterile- places become aestheticised, losing the functions and meanings that created them in the first place.

 But I found it considerably easier to relax into painting there than in Recife, partly simply because it is far safer.

Nine from Recife and Olinda