Typical Dutch winter landscape with people skating on natural ice. I made this artwork in the winter because it seemed like an appropriate time of year to me. Personally, I like the winter season very much. Maybe because I was born in January.
Unfortunately, it is an image that is seen less and less. The winters are less severe. Due to climate change.
Climate change is a theme that I often use in my artworks.
This painting is a combination of acrylic paint, collage, pencil drawing and your own photo, all digitally brought together in one work of art.
I remembered that as a young girl I so much liked to cut images from magazines to paste them into school agendas, scrapbooks and even on my bedroom door. Add to this the fascination I always had for walls filled with old posters, flaking paint, scrappy billboards.. Read more…