Kaya Wine House

Kaya Winehouse Steps, Watercolour, 15"x18"

Kaya Winehouse Steps, Watercolour, 15″x18″

The Kaya Wine House hides itself on a back road that winds through the rugged hills around the “Ghost” village of Kayakoy and it oozes a kind of quiet beauty that’s becoming increasingly rare in this part of Turkey. The building is rough stone and twisted wood tangled with wrought ironwork draped with vines. The owners, their family, friends and clients, old artefacts, bottles, tools and a mysterious assortment of junk are strewn around the courtyard. They make and sell wines here, all sorts of country wines from all sorts of produce and it is worth seeking out for it’s rustic charm.

I’m creating a series of paintings of Kayakoy and intend to return there many times in this blog. Today I want to share a recent watercolour I made of a corner of this charming retreat.

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