"Motherhood"
This painting is my interpretation of Gustav's Klimt painting 'the three stages of woman'. I made this painting of a mother with her baby shortly after the birth of our second child. I was suffering from all kinds of conflicting feelings, and tried to capture in this colourful painting something of the intensely tender love I felt -in spite of everything- for our little child. This mother and child poster fits well in a yellow baby room, lactation consultant waiting room or midwife. But also great as a gift for mum on, say, her first Mother's Day.
My name is Anita Looijen-Stoof, and my artist name is Anita Letuve. As you might have noticed, I love to make colorful art and illustrations! I was born in a village close to Amsterdam and currently living in a village somewhere in the middle of the Netherlands. Fascinated.. Read more…