About the work

Thatched House with Banana Trees (Tropical Landscape Series)

Medium: Watercolor on paper — 21 × 27.9 cm — 2026

Thatched House with Banana Trees marks the beginning of a new stage following the opening of Linda Barnini’s studio in 2026. Revisiting and expanding the composition of her early 2021 study (Thatched House with Yellow Background), this work reflects the artist’s definitive return to painting and her wonder at the lushness of Colombia’s tropical flora. Through her architect’s eye, the artist revisits the pure geometry of vernacular building and places it in dialogue with the organic vitality and chromatic contrasts of its surroundings.

Executed in watercolor on paper, this version delves deeper into compositional rhythm and the atmospheric handling of water. The pyramidal structure of the thatched roof, rendered in fine textured strokes, is balanced by the monumental presence of the banana leaves in petrol green and deep blue, while the path in the foreground opens up the perspective of the landscape. A luminous piece that captures the bridge between her structural training and her later path toward botanical abstraction.