

To Rome with love
At the end of June 2016 I got on a plane in London leaving my husband and two school-going children behind, and headed to Rome. I was off to do a two-week figure painting workshop with the artist Hollis Dunlap, and to see the city’s treasure trove of art and architecture. The Rome Art Workshops initiative was created by artists David Simon and Brian Booth Craig. David is a figurative sculptor based in Los Angeles, and Brian, who creates bronze figurative sculpture, is based i