A rose explosion! this rose painting in paper/oil technique is 60 X 40 cm. I can never stop being inspired by these very unusual Luxor roses.

What a beautiful gesture! I have loved this painting from Lukas Cranach, the Elder, 1472-1553. This detail is only 15 X 10 cm., mixed media on carton. Please come and enjoy the Stand Up Art blocks designed by Herman. The oil paintings are mine.
We will be here for the 3-day Pinksterdagen Week End, 18, 19 and 20 May, from 11 to 17 hours. I will be in the greenhouse and Herman by the water-lily bassins. He has some beautiful new kinds of lilies which will unfortunately not blossom until June. We have had a cold spring, remember. Our flower garden did not mind the cold and is glorious. you are invited!

This bright May day inspires me to begin a new series=this time roses. Across the lake you can buy these glorious Luxor roses: deep luxurious blossoms with reds in the petals emerging from white bases. Each flower gets better and better as it unfolds. This canvas is 60 X 40 cm. painted over my favorite "Ben Dot" packing paper. The series contains many small studies to be mounted on Herman's Stand-Up blocks. Opening on the PinksterWeekend show 18, 19 and 20 May here on our Nymphaea Eiland. Everyone is welcome.

 Painted this portrait of Rini recently. small formaat which I love= 25cm. x 25cm.
That the conversation revealed a very special woman shows forth in the oil painting I think.

Want to have a lot of fun in Villa Bourgesie in Rome, especially on a beautiful Sunday? Rent a Biciclette Bella with three good friends. You will have lots of laughs. 5 wonderful days in GrottaFerrati in the neighborhood of Frascati.

Bathsheba thinking about the letter she received from King David. She must reply, of course, and does. A drama occurs in which her husband is killed. This 30 x 30 cm. mixed technique painting is inspired by a photo of Marlene.

"Lot and His Daughters" is another present-day painting inspired by a Bible story. Sodom and Gomorrah was in flames= an aftermath of God's wrath on sinful living and disrespect. Lot had been given the chance to leave and fled with his family which had been warned to not look back on the destruction of their hometown. His wife did and was turned into a pillar of salt. The daughters had the task of providing the family eer. Pa was the only man around.
In this "story" the daughters are nurses and the aging man was inspired by Lucian Freud, my favorite portrait painter who died last year.