The newest additions to my Everyday Studies series explore the poetry of simple citrus branches through an Italian lens: Arance Crema and Arance Menta. These two works take the same core composition and shift its emotion through palette and atmosphere, creating a study in how color alone can reshape narrative.
Arance Crema (2025), sits in a warm, mellow register a soft cream field that lets the oranges pulse with subtle heat. The piece feels sunlit, quiet, and measured, drawing from the earthy calm of Mediterranean mornings.
Arance Menta (2025), on the other hand, introduces a breezy mint tone that sharpens the greens, energizes the composition, and lends the subject a sense of freshness and renewal.
Like all works in the Everyday Studies collection, these pieces begin as observational sketches and evolve into explorations of geometry, gesture, and contemporary pop-art language. They’re studies not just of objects but of how mood, tone, and color can completely transform the everyday.