The lady and her bird are apparently sitting on a balcony, that is, the lady is sitting on the balcony and the bird on the balcony railing. The bird is clearly expecting something from the lady, as he or she looks at her expectantly. The lady is paying more attention to something else. She is masked and thus probably prepared for a festive, masquerade ball. The bird might be waiting for something to eat, it might also be something more surreal e.g. a conversation, or a serenade, you never know where contact with a bird will lead. There is plenty of room in this work to turn it into a story. So you keep looking, looking at what is actually happening here. This work is colourful, but the colours are a bit more opaque than I normally use. The colours dark cyan, camel, brown and black really dominate here.
As an artist, I like to enter a colorful world especially the world of flowers. This colourful and so positive world appeals to me enormously. Flowers spread a positive atmosphere because of the colors and the beautiful and diverse shapes and one can never get enough of that!.. Read more…