A Day of Flowers is a diary in real time. Catania set himself a simple, iron rule: one painting a day, every day, at actual size, 50×50 cm, with no “stock” produced in advance to be handed out later. This decision set the rhythm and the truth of the project: the events of the day, the mood, the place, the season and the hour (never the same) left their mark on the composition, colour, form and emotional energy of each work.
The result is a constellation of images that change register with ease: at times lyrical, at times vibrant, at times almost nocturnal. Stylistic variety is not the exception but the method: a declared challenge to repetition, to claim the freedom to experiment with brushes and visual grammars that the artist feels close to his own taste and to a precise idea of painterliness, even while working digitally.
The project was born on 29 August 2025 in Honfleur, Normandy, during a camper-van journey. The spark: David Hockney’s book on his stay in Normandy and on the iPad as a painting tool. Catania had had Procreate installed for a long time, never truly “inhabited”. At the campsite, in front of a tree facing the pitch, the first attempt: no manuals, no studied method; only learning by contact, by trial and by looking. From there, the daily pact.
Public sharing, daily stories on Instagram and a fortnightly carousel of the fourteen works, built a small, engaged community: preferences expressed, messages, encouragement, the first acquisitions. Every week the works are printed on fine art paper in their original format and framed by hand by the artist in natural pine: the digital thus returns to the body of the work, regaining substance, edge, shadow.
A Day of Flowers is, at heart, a meditation on time: not abstract time, but time lived and measured in gestures. One flower a day as the smallest unit of cultivated beauty.
