Reflecting on 2023: A Year of Artistic Discovery and Dreams for 2024
Gus Romano Gus Romano

Reflecting on 2023: A Year of Artistic Discovery and Dreams for 2024

As 2023 draws to a close, I reflect on a year of artistic exploration and growth. From the bustling streets of Tokyo to standing before Van Gogh's masterpiece in Paris, inspiration has been my constant companion. In 2024, my focus shifts. No longer chasing numbers, but crafting meaningful stories on canvas. Exhibitions, art prizes, and a deeper dive into the art world await. Join me on this creative journey, as we embark on a new chapter in art and self-expression. Wishing you all an artful 2024! 🎨✨ #ArtisticJourney #NewBeginnings #2024ArtDreams

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Letters of Gus Romano

Since July 2025, I have been writing what I call my Letters. They are not essays, nor polished reflections, but fragments of my inner life as an artist — thoughts written in the raw, as if to a friend, like Van Gogh once wrote to his brother Theo.

I began these Letters because I realized painting alone cannot hold all that I feel. Sometimes the silence of the studio needs words. In them, I write about doubt, joy, fear, inspiration, exhaustion, and the fragile balance between my work as an artist and my life outside it.

The Letters are dated, imperfect, and deliberately personal. They are not meant to be instructions or manifestos. They are simply traces — records of what it means to search for truth in painting in the 21st century.

Whether anyone reads them now is less important than the fact that they exist. One day, perhaps, they will help explain not only my art, but also the time I lived in, and the questions that guided me.