Un Giorno Nuovo by Brooke Harker 50″ x 80″ ink, oil and acrylic on canvas
Presenting: Un Giorno Nuovo
The title translates to “A New Day” and comes from the woman who commissioned this when she told me she wanted the painting to represent the promise of a new day.
She shared plans to use this painting to teach her children about optimism.
Booking this commission, to me, was also an act of optimism because she hadn’t yet been to Rome.
Instead of choosing to remember only a place she’d been, she set her sites on future destination to take her children.
Also this is embedded with the knowledge that her father-in-law is from Rome.
detail on Un Giorno Nuovo
So this painting carries both the past and the future in it’s details.
more detail on Un Giorno Nuovo
I feel deeply grateful for the woman who commissioned this painting, both for her lovely spirit and as this a view is one I’d planned to paint larger scale in color since I first saw the scene in 2015.
It was absolute synchronicity that she contacted me a week before I departed for Italy last summer and asked for the very painting that had been in my heart for so many years.
You may recognize this scene in my sketches and paintings over the years.
Side Note:
I’ve also worn a selection of dorky hats while sketching that view in Rome.
Sometimes I take the hat off for a minute for a photo…to pretend like I’m not a dork…although it’s all smoke and mirrors–I’m proudly all about the UV protection:) Unless I find a spot in the shade or early morning…
Other Rome Paintings from this Scene:
This sketch and many experiences inspired Una Vista di Roma.
Una Vista di Roma
Una Vista di Roma by Brooke Harker 48″ x 48″ ink, oil & acrylic on canvas
I don’t think I ever put this painting out in one of my newsletters… although it was on social media and in the Saturday Night Live Art Shows video project.
I was busy hoarding this one for a couple years after it’s completion. I wanted to have words to capture what it meant…although there were too many words, too many stories…
This is one I sat next to and sobbed when I dropped it off at the gallery. Luckily the gallery was closed so nobody could see me and the gallery owner was in the other room.
It’s different with each painting, the process of releasing them. I’ve walked thousands of steps for each of them and chosen to mix paint in crazy temperatures under the sun. They each contain layers of histories, friendships and lessons learned. It can be kind of weird being responsible for something for a time and then it’s just gone… off into the world to do it’s job.
If you see giving this painting a good home… and you want a painting embedded with a lot of heart and epic stories of love and friendship, I’ve already cried my tears, this painting is ready to party at your house.
Una Vista di Roma is available at Lu Martin Galleries in Laguna Beach you can see the rate here.
If you like less color, Tempo per Roma, inspired by this view is also available at Lu Martin Galleries, click here for more details. I never felt called to add more color to this one.
Brooke Harker
