top Salento Pink Purple Water Colour

Inspired by a postcard of Nardo', Lecce, South Salento, Italy

top The Night Owl

Living for some months in the desert in Santa fe New Mexico, all through the night hearing the 'call' of the owls back and forth to their mates....the magic and the owl medicine for the native American Indians are really a powerfully beautiful traditional story...the image is inspired by this experince and all these feelings! My wife and I raised an owl in Tuscany called Moses and freed him back into the wild in 2002...we love the owls

top Wiley Coyote

The coyotes howl and cry many nights while I was living in Santa fe and sometimes I wouldf encounter one of these cleverest of beast early in the morning on my walk...they froze to 'smell' me and I froze to gaze at their beauty!

top Saint basil

One of the great saints and 'fathers' of the 4th century catholic church

top Saint Rita

One of the most powerful woman saints in the history of Italy....she went through hell and back...was refused entry in a convent...her husband was killed in a family/clan conflict...all her children died from poverty and sickness...she found faith like no other...thorougly abandoned and discared...living out in the wild starving....! Coming to the Grace...miraculously!

top My Beautiful Olive Tree

Living in Salento in the countryside by the sea means to live admidst hundreds of olive trees...one more specially beautiful to another...it is said by the Kaballist every olive tree is an incarnated soul....

top Two olive trees in the wind

Living amidsts so many many olive trees in Southern Salento Italy...The Kabbalists believe every olive tree is an incarnated soul...and when one sees the faces knotched, carved into the olive trees created by the elements of nature...sun, rain, heat and humidity...this picture attempted to expose the feeling and mouvement of the olive branches rustling and making music in the wind...colours in motion...make a visual potion!

top Group of olive trees

The magic of the olive trees is a sight to behold, especially when they are full of ripe olives, before being picked. Each year we had an abundance of fresh olive oil!

top Chiesa dei Diavoli

a church that appeared out of nowhere overnight...the local myth: the church of the Devil!

top Bolzano Barn

the bolzano series: the Barn that I could see from the hotel we were staying in