Limited Edition Etching by Shaun Mcdowell

We present a small curated selection of etchings produced by Villa Lena Foundation in the past few years.
Four emerging British artists, past residents at Villa Lena, present visual studies on the classical subject of Figure and Landscape. Whilst Shaun McDowell works in abstraction, his work is always rooted in the physical world. He starts with either a model or a landscape. Whilst painting at Villa Lena, he felt fully immersed in the Italian countryside and also the nature. Through form and colour, the print and each painting he made here resemble a sense of landscape with figure or animal energetically present. The colour in the works was undoubtedly a reflection of the vivid and saturated landscape of Tuscany he painted in, a sense echoed in the life and times experienced at Villa Lena itself.