~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.
~

~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.
~

spiral hearts

Have been painting on this piece ,but still i am not satisfied with it.I have been painting it over yesterday and the day before,and today I will change it again i think.Somehow there is no unity in it.The hearts are scattered all over the canvass and the colours are to dull.
I don't know if I will continue afther today or will put it aside for a while.Even though ,i would like some comments on it,maby you could help me out here.......

inside heaven......

Dag Lieve by Bibje

It took al long time,but I am painting again.
It's not going easy but I am inspired and that counts for something.My fathers sickbed and his dying almost killed me,and my two kids and my mom,so I had to survive....In order to comfort myself I painted my first work a week afther he died and that was the last til many months later.That painting is hanging in my livingroom,so we can see it and imagine him near.In this painting all my love for him shows, it goes beyond the grave,inside Heaven.I hope he still feels it there.
Above is the painting.