A Tree Painting

My story began some time ago in London. In musea, I was amazed at what art evokes in me. Powerful distinctly abstract art made me ponder between two worlds, realism and surrealism. When corona broke out and hit my sector hard, I sat at home for a year and a half. Sitting still and doing nothing, however, was not for me. I wanted to find a way to experience and express my creativity. I started experimenting with acrylic paint. From the very first encounter, it gave me a certain satisfaction. I could create something that wasn't just floating around in my head. Giving shape gave me a certain freedom. And at the same time, I noticed that it also brought limitations. That opposite the dreamscape, reality also knows restrictions. I also see this tension between freedom and limitations in the world around me. You have very much freedom but there are also laws and restrictions, just as this is true in chemistry, biology and physics. Dealing with that field of tension is present in life and in my painting. In corona times, I also had difficult moments. I mostly stared at a work of art, given to me by my grandmother, where thickly patterned acrylics were used. It gave me peace but brought me frustration at the same time. I kept returning to this painting. When the world stood still for me, for me nature seemed to change at the same time. That's how I came up with the idea of moving the nature into my interior. Not with the idea of completely copying my garden, but to transform the aspect of nature into an image, feeling, place in the house. I wanted what was happening outside to come in as a feeling. I started with some small works. In the beginning, the circles were a tree for me. I brought together in them all the colours that visualised this for me. On a solitary walk during autumn, I walked many times around such an expressive tree. It had lost its leaves so beautifully in the shape of a circle with all the colours. It was a beautiful experience that I wanted to elaborate on. For me, it had to become more than just putting an image from outside on a canvas, I wanted to bring into it certain techniques that I control and that create relief. In the translation to the canvas, I found in relief a way to find freedom and deal with limitations. Working with relief also brings an extra dimension for me. It allows multiple interpretations, brings multiple feelings. It evokes more. One day I was dragging logs.