~Painting in progress~

New painting in progress.
It's an old one(again) it has been standing on the attic waiting for better days. I made it when my father still lived. He was charmed by it, it was one of my first of many colours. Tired of painting with a limited palet I decided to go for it and took al the lovely colours out of my box. After my fathers death my palet has changed into still more brigther colours. Pinks and yellows and all sorts of greens and blue's...I love them all. It's like a meadow full of flowers. It's what I want heaven to look like. And that's what I will pursue with this painting....to be continued....

let me whisper in your ear.....by Bibje 1994

I have been doing a lot of things lately ,but not blogging on this blog ;-)
I sort of forgot, and now I see I have 4 followers. O thank you!!!!!
And what uplifting compliments you gave me.

To explain why I never even got time to react I will tell you about my live.(sounds heavy ay?)
For two years my boy was homeschooled by me. Things were very rough on him(and us) al long time and when it all started to fall apart I took him from school.(which is illegal here in Holland)
Lately he wished to go back to school, which meant that I had to make a lot of arrangements. That has had me very bussy for a while. And still does, but he is in school again and enjoying every minute of it(at least that's what I hope,he is enjoying it though ) Since he is a child with a label,he had to go through al sorts of procedures to get the money needed for extra care. That is nearly done now. And then I am free to paint the day away for years to come...so, with a bit of patience you wil see a lot of work in the future.

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~a bit more finished~

My last post I showed my painting in progress,and now I show the piece nearly done. I have been painting it over and over again,and again....it is still not ready but very near the end. It's resting for a while,.

It represents the innocence; the sweet, soft, angelic, pure heart of a maiden. She is unaware of her beauty, she just is........and it's okay to be that way. Sort of counterpart of the "sex sells the picture" fashion of today.

~she crossed over~

Last post I told you about how my mother took a fancy on my "Spiral Hearts"
and how it got destroyed in the fire she had in her house.
Now I tell you about her death.
She died on the 10th of march,
so suddenly that I have not recoverd from the shock.
O I know she had a severe heartcondition.
I know her kidneys got damaged by her medication.
I know she had lung-problems.
But she was not ready to go yet and we had so many plans to work out together.
I have been crying for weeks now and just today I managed to paint for the first time.
It's not ready yet but alive and kicking.
You can't see anything of my grieve in the painting.
It is a happy painting,full of live and spring and hope in it.
She saw the start of it...it has been waiting for inspiration for months and months.
And now,
I imagine she guided my hand,
stood behind me,
coached me,
in making this piece of work.
Hope she wil be proud of me.
Hope she wil be as happy as the painting itself now she joined my father in heaven.
Hope I wil be one day that happy again too.
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~Miro~

I never did anything more on the "Spiral Hearts".
My mother saw it and was so moved I gave it away.
She had it over her bed for a while .
And now its gone.
Destroyed in the fire she had in her house.
I did not paint anything interesting after that.
So I wil display some of my old paintings.

There was a day that I was very inspired by Miro.
I had been to Barcelona,
what a wonderfull city!!!!
I was so overwelmed by its buildings and art.
And being there I went to lots of museums and galleries,
and of course the Gaudi buildings and Parc Guell.
The colours touched my heart.
So bright and so pure.
The simpel designs of Miro made me do something I never did before in my work.
Simplify and abstract was my motto.
The ancient before times-time(Genesis) my theme.
And above is what came of it.
In Hebrew it says; And God said ,let there be light!
The other one I forgot.(oops)

It certainly threw light on my artwork.
And gave me a whole new way of expressing myself.
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