Isn't it extraordinary how nature goes through the year? The seasons in the Netherlands alternate with different types of weather. Sometimes it is summery hot and sometimes the temperature drops below zero degrees. Wind, rain, storms, thunderstorms also pass by. And nature endures all this.
With trees, you see beautiful fresh green leaves emerge in spring, which already lose some of their beautiful fresh green under the influence of the summer sun. In autumn, many trees are at their most beautiful when the leaves turn to warm shades of red, orange and yellow.
When these autumn leaves start to fall, they become dry and sometimes break. One such autumn leaf was used for this photo. A leaf in the warm shades of orange and yellow.
The leaf was given an artistic treatment by freezing it in water with some green paint added in a few places. This green symbolises the last chlorophyll still present in the leaf and its loss. This treatment with ice and paint has created an extraordinary natural work of art in warm autumn colours. The photo was taken at close range so that the leaf is no longer recognisable but instead the beautiful structures of the ice, paint and leaf come to the fore. An abstract and artistic work of art was thus created.
The leaf is from an Elm (Ulmus minor).
I see making art as a creative process.
The starting point of this process for me is always a photo or a painting of my own. Every work of art on this site is therefore based on a self-made photo or painting.
I find my sources of inspiration in everything around me...
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