An old woman reads a book in the late hours of the evening.
Her eyes were not too good anymore and the fact that there was hardly any light did not help either, of course.
There is nothing I can do about the quality of her eyes, unfortunately, but I was able to help her by hanging a lamp, in front of the painting....
This is my adaptation of a painting from around 1631, by Dutch painter
Gerard Dou (also known as Gerrit Dou).
The woman is reading the nineteenth chapter of Luke's gospel.
Art with a wink ;-)
The stylists at Art Heroes call my art style ‘Art with a Wink’. And I couldn't agree more. Life is serious enough as it is, don't you think? ;-)
I mainly make surrealist artworks and collages, because in those artstyles I can so wonderfully unleash my creativity and unbridled..
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