Mary Clare Albanozzo - Fine Artist - Sliema

I have visited Mary Clare Albonozzo's gallery in Tigne' Sliema, where she was very kind to open her gallery when visiting hours were closed and let me capture a couple of pictures from her art works.

As I have taken a look to her art pieces, I must say that she's inspired from the environment  human figure and from our beautiful architectural buildings located on our island as her paintings consists of flowers, human figures and buildings.
I must say that Mary Clare loves to experiment with different colours as a couple of her paintings are painted with different colours from the original colours. In her paintings, Mary paints different moments from day to night and yet that's what makes an interesting art piece as colours vary from day to night.

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Here, Mary painted a bush of flowers where she used watercolours as a media. She exploits the world of colours and produces a great painting, as she have used a lot of brush strokes to create such flowers, yet it gives such relaxed feeling cause of the bright yellow colour combined with pink, orange, green and a touch of black and although the image is full in colour, they're still not bold and strong.

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The Breakwater

As I have stated before, Mary likes to paint spots from our Island and here she have painted The Breakwater.
Once again she used water colours as a media, yet this time she didn't use brush strokes techniques but a complete solid painting with light natural colours.
I'd guess she have painted in a cool summer day whereas she managed to create the calm feeling of the beautiful day with light, soft colours that represents the colours that one can see in a sunny day.


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St.Angelo in moonlight

In this painting, she decided to use a black background and pastels to paint.
This artefact is quite different from the others starting from media, colours and ending with the background. Mary have captured our Fort St.Angelo at night guessing in full moon as it can be seen in the top left corner. She uses warm colours for the bottom part as she used a mixture of reds, yellows and black for darkening up some parts whereas I think the colours are reflection of spotlights, and she used a lot of cold colour for the top part as she used a lot of green to create a bond yet mixed with blue, purple and white to create shadows.

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Golden Bay

This is a still life painting at Golden Bay, she painted the landscape in a different way whereas a burst of colours are placed in this painting.
This painting gives me an exciting feeling where it shows a hot summer day as in my opinion the bold patches of orange represents the reflection of the sun. Mary have used natural colours in certain places like the sky and sea and parts of the land, but once again she replaced natural colours to others just like the purple patches in hills and rocks by the sea.



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