"Young woman expects the thunderstorm"

Oil on HDF

63 x 41.5 cm

2021

I am passionate about playing Scrabble. For a long time. For a few years now also online. And here I started a conversation with a young woman about painting and one day I asked her if she could imagine "sitting" as a model for me. In this case not en nature, but in the form of a naked rear view, which I then wanted to use as a template for the above picture. At some point she agreed and so this picture could arise. The original idea was actually to paint her as if she wanted to go into the sea during a thunderstorm. A camping guest, who watched me painting and in the evening pondered the picture with me by the campfire, then had the idea that a sea of ​​flowers was also a sea and that the picture would take on a completely different character. So I rescheduled and the result was a colorful but somber picture.

The motif of the young woman who goes into the water during a thunderstorm is stored in my head and will follow at some point.