Visual Strolls is a residency space for artists who share an affinity for landscapes and wilderness, inner and outer. Foresta is changing with every season as the real forest does. In cyclical circularity it celebrates changing seasons of nature and of our lives. As snow melts away, as days grow longer, as leaves change colour, as they fly with the wind, as stillness settles in, as warmth returns, as birds cross continents — at the turn of each seasonal moment we invite a different artist to bring a new time of the year to Foresta by creating a portrait of time that later becomes part of the permanent Museum of Seasons.

Our very first artist in residence and portrait creator was Valerio Vidali. Valerio is an illustrator and maker of picture books, wooden toys and sculptures. Here is a selection of some works of his. First 2 images were made in collaboration with Violeta Lopiz.