I love colour, so I was surprised with the amount of colour I found in Portugal. Not only in everyday things like laundry, but especially in the buildings. If a building is not painted in pink, orange or yellow, it is tiled in azulejos, the typical Portuguese tiles.
During a city walk, I came across this colourful combination. Not only do you see the typical Portuguese tiles in the background here, but a beautiful colour palette of green, orange and red which is so typical of southern Europe. You see these colours pass by in different gradations and the matt green and orange go well with the bright red.
This work not only brings colour into your home, but also shows you that beauty lies in unexpected things. Especially when you put a number of things next to each other that don't seem to fit at first, an exciting play of colours emerges. You don't have to look for it, it exists in combining what is already there.
Rieneke Elzerman-Schokker is a writer, photographer and creator. She travels the world as a digital nomad, working online in the most beautiful places. Her passion for photography started at a young age. On her eleventh birthday, she got her first camera and has been capturing small moments.. Read more…