Italian painter Alessandro Tofanelli�s haunting landscapes conjure a feeling of stillness and solitude. Whether that�s a positive or negative is, I think, somewhat indeterminate. He paints in Italy, however � for me � his emphasis on scenes on or...

Italian painter Alessandro Tofanelli�s haunting landscapes conjure a feeling of stillness and solitude. Whether that�s a positive or negative is, I think, somewhat indeterminate.
He paints in Italy, however � for me � his emphasis on scenes on or at the edge of water feel particularly evocative of the time I spent as a child with my grandfather on the Eastern Shore in Maryland.
The small samples above don�t give an adequate feeling for the way the paintings look when reproduced larger on several of the sites I list below.
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