painting — Musings about art and related topics

When I discovered painting in 1993, it made me the happiest person in the world. I just wanted to apply oil paint with a brush on a canvas and that was it. Did I not have any ambition? Maybe it was humility? There I was, holding a brush in my hands, standing in front of a canvas, smelling the aromatic perfume of oil paints and putting colors on a prepared fabric. I could have been in a church being married to God - it felt like it. Never again I wanted to be separated from that sacred feeling. It had been a mystery and a mystical experience - until it was over. The paintings here are from a later period. After the initial phase of complete bliss, I fell into a creative hole and had difficulties to escape from it. I resolved to go studying arts and find tools, which would help me during artistically meager periods. Did I find tools? I don’t think so, not really. Through the years and the struggles, I found the trust, that there will always be inspiration and that it is possible to take it from there, one step at a time.

Indian Mermaid 2005 with a curious Robin

Parc de Bruxelles 2007, painting with embroidery