Street scene in Havana

Acrylic on canvas

50 x 70 cm

2019

It was probably in 2008 when my daughter was in Cuba. She brought many photos with her. But there was one thing she liked so much that at some point she asked her father to paint it occasionally. The picture shows a typical street scene in Cuba, in this case in the southern Cuban city of Trinidad. It was almost the calm before the storm, because the following day a pretty violent storm broke out, which unfortunately also put an end to the daughter's tour plans.
It is not so natural for daughters to ask for something like this. And I have never "pushed" onto someone with pictures of me ....... So one day I got to work, but it just didn't and didn't want to succeed. The colors were too pale, the mood was not the one in the photo. I've never been to this island, I know other parts of the Caribbean, but I don't know Cuba. Maybe that's why I couldn't find an entrance. Year after year went by and my daughter got everything from her loving father, but not the picture. Perhaps she had long forgotten it when I asked for the photo again last summer and asked her to send it to me briefly online. I suddenly had an inspiration and, above all, an incredible desire to paint it. Suddenly the colors were there! And finally the Caribbean atmosphere was there that I was looking for so long .......

Now it hangs in the living room of my daughter and her partner. And I think she loves it! And I love my daughter !!!