This series was inspired by a recent trip to Porto in Portugal. The city is full of secret doorways, ancient windows and crumbling buildings peeling with paint and graffitied, with the abandoned nestled up against the very much lived in.
This is a special place and the paintings below are based on memory. I did not draw before making these paintings – I simply wandered, took photographs and absorbed the essence of the place. Returning to the studio I painted what I had seen – none of these windows exist anywhere other than on these canvases. But they have their origin in memory and are a response to my experience of this magical city.
Porto window ©Mary Price 2015
Porto window ©Mary Price 2015
Cat looking in ©Mary Price 2015
Porto doorway ©Mary Price 2015
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Love them! They are so fun and free! I am partial to the kitty cat one 🙂
Thankyou Mary – Porto is full of cats draping themselves artistically 🙂
Beautiful paintings!
Thankyou – Porto is such a beautiful city!
Wow, looks amazing, wish I was in Portugal. Beautiful.
Thank you Cheryle – back in Bristol now but it was a fantastic city to visit!
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Thank you for sharing this Sharon x
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