In this blog I share with you what inspires me, my passions, struggles and lessons learned, works in progress and my finished paintings.
- Stormy Reflections: Art Inspired by Winter 2025/2026This group of 5 small paintings on A3 200 grams Canson paper reveal the story of the winter 2025/2026 with heavy storms, abundant water and a lot of damage, especially in mid Portugal. Made in the autumn of 2025 and in the early Spring of 2026, it already feels far away because the beautiful Spring… Read more: Stormy Reflections: Art Inspired by Winter 2025/2026
- Restless Stones: A Creative Depiction from Invasive Freshwater Crayfish to StonesTwice a day I wander with my dog through nature. A few years ago I found a skeleton of an invasive freshwater crayfish that has taken over the rivers and streams. They are by far bigger than the native ones. It was almost completely intact and bleached by the sun. For comparison you will find… Read more: Restless Stones: A Creative Depiction from Invasive Freshwater Crayfish to Stones
- Portugese Tomatoes (painting process)A detailed description of the experience and process of figurative painting Portuguese tomatoes.
- Broken GlassThe symbol of broken glass means transformation and change. Broken glass gives you a new opportunity in life. That is the subject of these paintings.
- Cistus Ladanifer paintingEach Spring, the Cistus Ladanifer (rockrose, gumrose, labdanum) takes over the landscape of the Algarve with abundant white flowers. It is a rather invasive plant which overgrows all the abandoned farmland. But in Spring you forgive this plant that bad habit. It is so beautiful to see them in the morning sun, opening their flowers… Read more: Cistus Ladanifer painting