Issue No. 7 - June 2025
Stories of places, art & belonging
Dear friends,
It’s already June, and you can feel it in the air.
The Sicilian heat pulses just outside our doors — but we’re still holding onto the last cool evenings.
If you haven’t had the chance yet, there’s still time to see Mikaela Olovsdotter’s art exhibition at Torre Casalotto Golf Club. The show runs until July 8th — and it’s worth a slow visit.
This is our seventh newsletter.
We hope you enjoy the read.
- Anna
The Art of Atmosphere
“Don’t look for logic in art, seek a connection with your heart. Art doesn’t need explanation, only a soul willing to feel it.”
— Ella Fontanals-Cisneros
What does it really mean to live with art?
It’s not about knowing art. It’s not about being able to explain it. It’s not about matching the right frame to your wall color.
Living with art is about letting something into your space — and into your life — that moves you without needing a reason.
In the Houses & Art 2025 edition (p. 24), I wrote about why you don’t need to be an expert to like art.
Because art, in its truest form, is not a category to master — it’s a feeling to recognize.
When you choose a painting, a sculpture, a photograph — you’re choosing something that echoes something already inside you. A quiet connection. A spark. A softness.
That’s not logic. That’s recognition.
Living with art doesn’t mean collecting. It doesn’t mean knowing names.
It means surrounding yourself with pieces — made by others or by yourself — that let you feel something.
Joy. Stillness. Memory. Even confusion.
And art is not only found on gallery walls.
If you walk slowly through your city, your kitchen, a forest path in Sweden or a side street in Sicily — it’s everywhere.
In the curve of a railing. In the way a shadow falls on the table. In the colors of May.
The conclusion?
You don’t need to “understand” art.
If you like it, you like it. If you don’t, you don’t.
And that is perfectly enough.
At Houses & Art, we believe art belongs to everyone who is willing to feel it.
🖼
Anna
Founder of Houses & Art Magazine
A Postcard from Brucoli, Sicily
We took a day trip to Brucoli and found ourselves on the smallest beach I’ve ever seen — quiet, warm, and sun-washed.
A slow, lovely stroll through the village, of course, was impossible to resist.
Artwork from Mikaela Olovsdotter
- Titel: Untiteled House
- Artist: Mikaela Olovsdotter
- Year: 2025
- Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Size: 80 x 100 cm
- Availability: Available
This evocative painting captures a serene and open landscape where simplicity meets symbolism.
In the foreground, a small white house with a red roof sits nestled in a field of green, its minimal form suggesting themes of solitude, protection, and memory. The wide, grassy plain stretches toward the horizon, where a red-and-white striped lighthouse stands as a quiet sentinel beneath a sky painted with expansive, soft clouds.
The artist masterfully uses light and texture to create movement in the field, giving the scene a dreamlike atmosphere. The red elements—the roof and the lighthouse—quietly link the house to its distant counterpart, creating a subtle narrative tension between home and guidance, stillness and distance.
With its minimalistic style and symbolic elements, the painting invites viewers to reflect on the concept of home, orientation, and the emotional landscapes we inhabit. It’s a poetic and contemplative piece that leaves space for personal interpretation.
Text: Susanna Somerniemi, Art Critic, Finland
Photo: Anna Posa
Thanks for joining me this month.
See you in the next letter — from the hills, the sea, or the studio.
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