night_paintings of Casole d'Elsa Tuscany in oils by Oliver Bevan

Colours of light

Nightfall with Flags

oil on canvas 29 x 44 cm

oil on canvas 52 x 76 cm

Evening in the Bar

Friends

oil on canvas 45 x 35 cm

oil on canvas 66 x 48 cm

Two doors

Jeep in the piazza

oil on panel 32 x 64 cm

Nightfall in the piazza

oil on canvas 26 x 38 cm

Openings

oil on canvas 52 x 41 cm

oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm

	Every year I teach a summer school in Casole d'Elsa, a small Tuscan hill town. Feeling so completely at home in that environment, I decided to record and probe the quality of life after dark. Tee shirts at midnight, the whole square buzzing with laughter, children on bicycles, and always the magnetic pull of the bars, pouring light from their open fronts. There is also a vulnerability in the light pools, a suggestion that the darkness is poised to engulf them. The sociable drinkers are oblivious of the fragility of their position.