Paintings of the Essaouira area
I fell in love with this town in early 2018 when looking after a friend’s apartment. Since then, I return when I can. Covid-19 sent me back from Morocco in a rush. Now all I can do is remember this magic and possibly piratical place in paintings and drawings.
I started off using my own reference images. Of course, once I realised I was more interested in street life than in architecture, I asked my very good, local friend Regragui Aitbella to continue taking photographs for me to use. I am so grateful for his generous spirit.
These paintings are all in acrylic on watercolour paper. They vary in size between roughly A4 and not quite A2
Oasis picnic
Private Business
Masks
Calf at Had Draa
Graffiti fish
Old Man and his Donkey
Morning gossip
Four windy Ladies
Master Potter of Safi
Boy on a donkey
Greeting
Closed hardware shop
Blue boat
Goats at Had Draa