This header is a pastel painting I did in 2009 is of a place in the Netherlands, my country of origin, after a photo shot by Dick Witte.

Some of the painters who have influenced me:
Mondriaan, Hopper
O"Keefe, Weyeth
Singer Sargent
van Gogh, Rembrandt
Picasso, Escher

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

FREE TO EXPRESS AND EXPERIENCE

No matter how old we are, we need to have an outlet for our expression, without skill or experience being a requirement



just hang...you know


just "be" without any pretense, I think that's the strong side of an artist


One of them had printed a poem to display.  So I started painting her, imagining  how her pages would fly into the sky in her chase for words



The Poet, 24 x 24, Oil, St.Germain