Everyone who gathered at the old family farm in Romualda that night, was unaware that they were stepping onto a path leading deeper into the heart of Humbravana.

That first dream, and years later my experience with the print of ‘The Transformative Force’, had led me to an apprenticeship with Imero in his studio. It was there that the place he called Humbravana began to form more clearly in my mind…

I previously wrote about my first conscious entry into Humbravana being through the image ‘The Transformative Force’- the portal that took me into another time and place…

I knew that I resonated with Humbravana, but most remarkably, as I worked alongside Imero Gobbato, a deep kinship developed between us, with a growing sense that we had known each other before.

I had already sensed that Imero Gobbato was a very private man, but I was determined to get to know him, and it has been one of my greatest fortunes to have had the opportunity to do so.

I first consciously entered the world of Humbravana through this intaglio print, called ’The Transformative Force’.