Oil painting 44x44cm, Marije du Bateau.
One day, I stopped fighting against myself. I made peace, as an adult, with the child in me. I consoled her for the grief suffered in the past and promised her that I would always be there for her. And instead of clinging to others any longer : "Do YOU understand me? Or YOU then maybe?" , I could now be there for myself, and in that sense stand on my own two feet. It was a fantastic feeling: a deep healing, the beginning of a new journey!!! I saw this image appear: me as a small child in my pyjamas, with my 3 beloved cats, at the beginning of a new journey.
In many of my paintings, I use the same perspective: someone at the front looking at 'the rest of the painting'. In this case, that is the journey ahead of her. In other paintings, it might be a face, or an eye, or some other thing expressing wisdom.X Marije du Bateau
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