Posts tagged "art"
Mary Cinque/ Just a moment
When I was a postgraduate student at the fine arts academy of Brera (Milan), the fate wanted me to try again with watercolour painting. But what began as a duty, soon turned into an infinite pleasure. I started searching among […]
The sound of coffee
We moved to London about a year ago and although time is just a convention, it seems right to write a milestone post. This city has never been a myth for me, as New York is, but it was easy […]
Por…tales
I’m sorry to have to write this, but at the same time I’m happy to finally be able to do the typical blog post “I haven’t post for a long time but…”! 😉 It’s been a long ’cause I’m cheating […]
ON and OFF
I don’t know how to explain it, but if I’m working on Sunday, it feels more like holiday to me. Usually people complain about having to work when everyone else is off, but I see a potential in not being […]
Fall in love
I love fall! The color of some leaves is my favorite yellow hue, as you can tell from my drawings. Last Saturday we went to Broadway Market, my fave market in London so far, and I just can’t stop drawing! […]
Mary Cinque London Sketchbook
Join us in celebrating the opening of the entirely refurbished Snug cafe! It was already lovely but now it’s even better. On the day of the opening free coffee for everyone, all day long, and some of my latest artworks […]
Have a nice weekend!
A good beginning makes a good ending. Friday morning and the waste truck is at our door, apparently the workers are arguing with each other, but when one of them sees me he stops, looks at me and says, “Good […]
In food we trust
It’s not my fault if almost all my posts have to do with food, London is the world food capital. Even Sloane, the physician thanks to whom the British Museum was born, has an interesting link with food, he promoted […]
To be continued by the reader
As soon as we settled, Paco found, in a bookstore near home, the Stoke Newington Bookshop, a 2008 reprint of a book he’s been talking about for a long time: John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. Created by the author with […]
Raw materials
Maybe I don’t see la vie en rose, but in yellow, as my French friend Robert Posnic pointed out, defining my London drawings “As a journey. A Neapolitan girl in England with lemon-shaped glasses”. This image made me think of […]