Cokkies

Before I start a painting, I have always thought about what I want to create on the canvas and here it is often the choice of color that is important to my start with the canvas. The choice of color tells us where I am right now, in this mood, mood and outside influences. I love colors, but can also go down into the dark and mysterious and bring out the joy in it. It's all a game to me and a way to let go. All sensors are used and therefore after 5 hours in the studio I am completely exhausted. I have several paintings sitting in my studio ready to move on. They may be unfinished paintings that have been standing for a long period of time and that I have not been able to move on with. A new day and a new energy means that I take out an unfinished canvas and the energy works and a painting is finished. There is also something completely uplifting about starting on a completely fresh canvas and starting from scratch. Often it doesn't work for me until a few layers have been added. Drying time and patience are the most important things in my work with my paintings. When I enter my Atelier I move into a bobble and everyday life is left outside and suddenly everything is about the art and creating something new.
When I feel a painting is finished, it always comes into the private room, where I observe the painting a few days before it is sold or exhibited. Some paintings are always difficult to part with and therefore I have also chosen some that will never be sold and that will remain in my private possession.
This was a small story through the painting's journey from start to finish.