Ricordi - memories

Collections of Ephemera - Naples, Cetara, Ischia

All artwork: Lydia Beanland. All rights reserved. Not to be reproduced without permission.

Travelling through Naples, Cetara and Ischia, I collect the ephemera of Italian hospitality — menu cards, restaurant stationery, paper bags, printed keepsakes — and carry them back to the studio. What follows is my response to those places. Each piece is hand-painted directly onto the original object, layered with brush and ink, colour and memories. They are personal, unrepeatable, and entirely my own.

They are what happens when an artist moves through a world she loves and cannot help but leave her mark on it.

Original hand-painted works on found ephemera. Brush, ink and gouache. Naples · Cetara · Ischia

Lydia Beanland is available for bespoke illustration commissions for hotels, restaurants and hospitality.