Moon over water, May Painting

With family in West Flanders we frequently visited a distant painter cousin who lived just behind these trees, on the ramparts that Vauban built as part of the frontier defences of French territory against the Spanish Netherlands.He was impulsive and wild and introduced me to the work of Permeke. The Menin Gate was built by the British after WWI to record the names of those from all over the Empire lost in action and without a known grave in the battles around Ieper, (Wipers.). I was not interested in that but it was an interesting landmark to anchor this piece of nostalgia. There are swans in the moat and I have occasionally seen them the wing there but never flying over the bridge leading to the gate. That is just my fancy, as is the rising moon. That came about because the greens of the trees suggested the blue of the sky which in turn made me think of a light evening.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:31.5 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in

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