Water Lilies and Agapanthus (2025)

First work of the year:

Water Lilies and Agapanthus (2025)
Acrylic paint, carved wood. 50 x 70 x 3 cm

Here’s something new I am currently exploring. I mentioned in my last newsletter that I usually reserve the time around Christmas and the New Year to calm down, read books about famous artists (this year it’s Monet all the way), admiring and analyzing their work, wandering in their shoes and in their times for a bit, feeling how they might’ve felt – and contemplating what I (the artist) want (need!) to be doing next. There all all these ideas, thoughts, rough concepts, the nonsense and the rage, swirling around in my head. Nothing really to hold on to, but that is anyway not what I am aiming for – I try to be as free as I can in this phase. No restraints. And no pressure.

So for my first time spent in the studio this year I approached a painting from impressionist Claude Monet from 1923, called „Water Lilies and Agapanthus“, painted in his famous garden in Giverny.

I carved and painted this in my famous old farmhouse house in the countryside, middle of nowhere, up North. I hope it gives you joy.

If you are interested in this work, please contact my studio manager Dorian by mail.