A clear, penetrating gaze. Frontally and inescapably we look this face in the eye. In contrast, a couple of beings with a friendly and open attitude cavort to the left and right. The head is shaped like a heart and incorporates these two beings, who have something to say to each other in a mysterious way.
The colours of the motif are purple, yellow and red, giving it harmony and authority.
The picture was created using a special mixed technique. The so-called stone paper was used, which the artist primarily works with. In the first step, a folded image was created from simple blobs. In the second, a print of this followed. The next step was to (discover) the motif by omitting and adding individual elements using brushes and gouache colours.
"Playmates" belongs to the series "Face to Face", which are painted using this technique. Inspiration came from the exhibition "Word and Image", which the artist had visited in Lübeck, where paintings and drawings by masterful literary figures such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Victor Hugo and Wilhelm Busch were on display. However, it was Justinus Kerner (1786-1862), an outsider, who appealed to her the most. As a poet and doctor, he wrote medical textbooks and had developed "blotography".
This playful use of splashes of colour lends the picture both lightness and depth. Annette Falk Lund would like to invite you to go on a journey of discovery when looking at her paintings.