Lbetho Art Liesbeth Oudshoorn

Lbetho comes from my name, but also sounds somewhat African. My first series of abstract paintings is called "Africans Dreams" and is inspired by Africa.

I paint since 1984. At that time it was my hobby. I started with pastels. Since 2005 I work with oil paint and in 2010 I started with abstract paintings in acrylic paint. At that time I also started to paint as a professional.

I dream my paintings, I lie awake at night often and my paintings are shaped into my mind. If I sleep or I am awake, I am busy with painting. I discover beautiful shapes and colors from everywhere. The total painting formes in my head. Then it may take a while before I start the painting, but it remains in my head until the painting is complete. So I've often 3 or 4 paintings in my head, which just need to be put on the canvas. Most of the time, the painting looks different on the canvas than I had dreamed. But that does not matter.

I like to make people glad and happy by my work. Therefore I use many powerful colors. I am inspired by nature. I live in the middle of a forest on a beautiful estate with many wild animals, such as Roe deer, foxes, rabbits, all kinds of special birds like woodpeckers, Nightjar. I paint not to nature, I do not copy an...