Gozo studio 1995-2025
Gozo Landscapes 2023 - 2025
Postcards to the grieving, exiled and grateful. Wish you were here.
This series navigates the tension between Gozo’s rural nature, its growing infrastructure, and the shifting values of an urbanizing world. Through Impressionist and Surrealist landscapes, light and form twist and bend, capturing an abstract world in flux, where history collides with progress and the past contorts under the weight of change.
These works explore a delicate balance between the enduring and the transient, where nature resists the dominance of infrastructure, yet is subtly transformed by it. Each painting is a snapshot of a landscape that is both familiar and distorted, where the rural past lingers in the shadows of development.
A selection from the collection
Sannap Cliffs
Acrylic paint on canvas, 40cm x 40cm
Carved by time and tide, the cliffs rise like pages in a stone-bound history. Light and shadow trace their ancient lines, while the sea breathes below, deep, restless and eternal.
Mgarr Harbor
Acrylic on canvas, 45cm x 40cm
Night falls over Mġarr, and the harbor stirs with life. Boats, their colors muted under the stars, rest in the water’s gentle embrace, while the village’s lights flicker like fireflies. The scene is a reflection of Gozo’s quiet defiance where the rhythm of time remains steadfast, even as the modern world pulses in the background.
Mgarr Harbor
Acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 30cm
Sunlight glances off the sea as a boat slips beyond the breakwater’s curve. The harbor cradles the coast in quiet assurance, stone and sea in gentle accord, where each departure feels safely held.
Sant' Antnin
Acrylic on canvas, 50cm x 40cm
Beneath the sun-kissed skies, the windmill turns its steady rhythm, a silent sentinel amidst the land’s ancient embrace. The earth’s warmth contrasts with the coolness of the sea in the distance, painting a scene where time stands still, where the old world holds on, even as the winds of change stir the dust of progress.
Widow's eye
Acrylic on canvas, 50cm x 50cm
Carved by time and the relentless forces of nature, Windows Eye stands as a testament to the earth’s quiet power. The rock formation, hollowed by sea and wind, gazes out toward an ever-changing horizon, its weathered edges a silent witness to the slow, sculpting embrace of the elements.
Bow Wave
Acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 30cm
A fleeting moment frozen in time: the pulse of the sea and the whisper of the boat’s journey. Light dances upon the rippling water, creating a silver ribbon that twists through the darkened harbor. Here, the clash of nature and human progress glimmers between the waves as the past and present sail side by side.
Marsalforn overpass
Acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 30cm
An old overpass crosses the valley, weathered but steadfast. Its worn stone and cracked surface tell stories of time’s slow erosion, yet it endures, solid, though forgotten; silent witness to the land’s quiet struggle between the past and the inevitable march of time.
Ghar Qawqla
Acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 30cm
The sea glows with shifting greens, holding the memory of the vanished arch. Rock and water meet in a quiet balance—fragile beauty caught between loss and renewal.
Xwejni salt pans
Acrylic on canvas, 50cm x 40cm
Where land meets sea, the salt pans mirror the sky. Pools of brine shimmer like fragments of light, each one a vessel of patience, shaped by wind, wave, and the enduring craft of time.