Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Goat


2003
This one is done without any ink, but I'm not using the watercolors as they should be used. I paint them rather dry and thick, more like oil colors.

Vampire


2002

Flock of Crows


1998

Willows and Sprites


1997

Mermaids brewing a Storm


1997
I made this drawing before I had ever seen NewZealand.

A Priest in Hell


This drawing is from 1998.I met some of these people later, which happens quite often when I paint people. It usually means trouble, so I mostly paint animals now.

Mermaid in a Bottle


Made this drawing in 1997, it was kind of a love-letter. Something I couldn't write, but only paint.

Shoemakers Sewing-machine



My boyfriend in 1988 was a shoemakers son.

Greek Island


This is on some greek island.

The Annabells


When I was 18, I ran away from school and went to greece.
At Athens I stayed at a little pub, the Annabells. There were all sorts of strange people. But some of the people in this picture are made up. This was to catch the atmosphere.

Sunflower Field


In 1987 I went to France for a year to work for a goat dairy farmer.
This is a sunflower field which I passed daily when I was walking with the goats all over the place for grazing. Some people think it is night, but I just made the background too dark.

Cellist



This drawing was done when I was 16 years old.I had some friends, who learned to play cello and I had a go at it. The original is about the size of a playing card.

Red Pond


I did this drawing when I was about 14 years old.It was a dream I had the previous night, where I had been swimming in the warm water of a pond,when the sun set and the stars appeared.
But instead of setting behind the horizon, then sun went under the waterline of the pond and all the water started to glow orange and I could see the jellyfish below.
This was so beautiful, I felt the strong urge to make a picture of it. As you can't take photographs of dreams, the only way was to paint it.