Last Sunday Open Studio

My studio and my gallery, Luna Rienne, are currently closed due to the pandemic. View the post above for further information about viewing my work during this period.

“Addio Lucca Ravioli” 18” X 56”. oil/panel, 1.2020. (for sale)

“Pintando la Casa de la Mora, Patzcuaro, Michoacan” 16” X 44”, oi /canvas, 12.2019. (for sale)

The two part video, below, chronicles a two and one half month painting trip beginning with the two week painting workshop I directed in Sicily and, afterwards, my journey with my wife, Beryl Landau, up the Italian Peninsula to Emilia-Romagna in the north.

This colorful video recounts a more than two month painting trip through the ancient heart of Italy. It explores celebrated sites as well as lesser known locations, and makes reference to some troubling contemporary issues. We recommend that you set aside an hour to enjoy this video on a large screen. Part 1 (13 minutes ) documents a painting workshop in eastern Sicily that Anthony Holdsworth led the first two seeks of his journey. Part 2 ( 35 minutes) begins when painter, Beryl Landau, joins Anthony in Catania. They travel slowly north by train and bus, lingering in the south. Some highlights include Matera (Basilicata) the most ancient inhabited site in Europe, Ostuni (Puglia) who's two thousand year old olive trees a threatened by biotech and L'Aquila (Abruzzo) still recovering from a catastrophic earthquake a decade ago. The video concludes in Lugo (Emilia-Romagna) with a dawn concert in the main piazza and a birthday celebration. Anthony Holdsworth served as Head of Outdoor Restoration for the Uffizi Gallery for a year and a half after the biblical flood of 1966. He and Beryl Landau return to the Bel Paese every few years to travel and paint. This was their longest and most ambitious journey. They wish to thank "Duo Pizzicato", "Mr. and Mrs. Cello" and Matteo Penazzi for the generous contribution of their music.

Ongoing Exhibition “Different  Perspectives”

Paintings of Italy and San Francisco

Beryl Landau & Anthony Holdsworth

“Rainy Night,Lucca Ravioli”, oil/panel, A Holdsworth ……………………………. “Evening at El Farolito”, oil/panel, A. Holdsworth

Luna Rienne Gallery, Nov 9 - Dec 2

  3318 22nd St, San Francisco Hours: Th - M, 12 - 6 PM

Screening of Video of the Italian Journey: Nov 17, 6:30 - 8 PM 

“Vanishing Landmark”, acrylic/canvas, B. Landau ……………………………….. “Bougainvillea, Catania, Sicily” Watercolor, B. Landau

“L’Aquila”, oil/canvas, A. Holdsworth . …………………………………………………..“Matera”, oil/canvas, A. Holdsworth

The Italian Paintings

These paintings, created on location, are the result of a two month journey by bus and train from Sicily to Northern Italy. Anthony and Beryl spent most of their time in the south, a little understood region with a very different history from the north. In the south, they stayed in  Catania, Cefalu, Matera, Ostuni and L’Aquila.

In the north they painted in Rome, Florence, and near Lugo in Emilia Romagna.