I painted this piece as an experiment. It didn’t turn out exactly the way I initially intended, but it still stayed close to my original idea. I was trying to practice certain techniques, though in the end the result wasn’t quite what I expected.

The scene is based on a photograph I once took in a beautiful spot in the mountains near the small town of Moraira in the province of Alicante, Spain. I lived there for some time, and this landscape comes from one of the photos I captured during that period.