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
Hardware store
Strange meeting
Boy on a donkey
Herb sellers
Master Potter of Safi
Graffiti wall
Goats at Had Draa
Blue boat
Old Man and his Donkey
Calf at Had Draa
Oasis picnic
Secrets of Had Draa
Four windy Ladies
Masks