When studying painting in Italy in my twenties, my home was an attic room in a convent run by Irish nuns. The convent was called San Girolamo (or Saint Jerome) and images and statues of the saint were everywhere.

When studying painting in Italy in my twenties, my home was an attic room in a convent run by Irish nuns. The convent was called San Girolamo (or Saint Jerome) and images and statues of the saint were everywhere.