Harvest, 2019 Painting

'Harvest' is a mixed media (oil, acrylic, soft pastel, oil stick) painting on canvas. Signed on the back only. My work is a celebration of the garden as a mystical sanctuary. Childhood memories, as well as impressions of botanical gardens and greenhouses that I have visited all over the world, offer a visual vocabulary that is intuitively called upon during the painting process. Whilst the garden serves as a motif, my work originates from deeper intentions. I usually start the process with an inner desire, a talismanic thought that is translated into a place on the canvas. I am on a constant quest for surprises: that perfect brushstroke, a luxurious glaze over thick paint, an accidental drop of oil, that lucky mistake.