does an Italian landscape have? I don’t know, but I have painted enough of them. I am discovering that what I am painting are souvenirs of the local landscape that I love. Is that the right way to put it? I think if a painter has a strong connection to the things he paints then, in the case of a landscape, he wants to bring back a strong memory of the thing he has seen, in that moment. When a painting is finished the effect is to remind me in a compelling way how I felt looking at that landscape.
Whittingham, an Italian landscape