Colour fields and senses
A series of large and medium size minimalist abstract paintings inspired by nature and senses.
uit 2018 tot 2023
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Hope And Empathy
2023Hope is setting small achievable targets, taking action to achieve those targets, and believing that you have what it takes to reach them. A feeling driven by expectation and desire for a better place, a more reasonable, friendly, loving place where nature is more forgiving to us, revitalising us, giving us balance and a peace of mind that we all need to enjoy life to the fullest.
Love Is Kind
2023Spontaneously arriving colours in soft and tenderly combined pastel tones layered with expressiveness and a search for harmony. An emotional visual experiment for analysing love, passion and kindness. The painting is a kind of puzzle were colours form an inspiration to patience, humility and love.
Love Is Patient
2023Spontaneously arriving colours in soft and tenderly combined pastel tones layered with expressiveness and a search for harmony. An emotional visual experiment for analysing love, passion and kindness.The painting is a kind of puzzle were colours form an inspiration to patience, humility and love.
Fusion Of Happiness
2023A spontaneous, textured composition of bright and glowing colours, a mix of opposites and contraries just like in life. Imagine all the opposing entities as happiness and sorrow, pleasure and pain, and enjoyment and stress are now translated into colours and set in order to create the right balance. The painting focuses on enhancing happiness and harmony and ultimately leads to more blissful living.
Epic Morning
2023Epic, bright and beautiful good morning. Sunrise, where everything is luminous in florescent pink and orange. In these cold and windy winter days, mornings can be surprisingly colourful and up lifting. Once you’ve watched the sun rise it actually feels like your day has more value. While each and every sunrise marks the beginning of a new day, it also reminds us that we, too, can start afresh with a good attitude, positivity, and thankfulness for what we have.
Dutch Winter Landscape
2023Winter, though a bit soft in Holland, is probably the most surprising with the most beautiful scenes of the year. Misty and wet days, frosty mornings, icy winds and endless spaces meeting the rising or setting sun. Monotonous nature and a white blanket make winter the most prominent of all the seasons of the year.Take a deep breath and appreciate natures gift at its most beautiful. Freezing crisp clean air, frozen water with low sunlight reflecting off the clear shimmering ice, highlighting the surrounding landscape in soft pastel colours and luminous glow coming through the bold willow stumps. The painting is painted on a professional linen stretched onto extra reinforced with aluminium and wood under frame guaranteeing no skewing. Sides are 2.5 cm thick and painted so framing is not necessary but could be added if you wish to.
Pollarded Willows
2023Recently pollarded willow trees, on the edge of a creek, in the polder on a sunny winter day just before the sun is ready to drown into the emptiness with clouds and horizon. Freezing crisp clean air, frozen water with low sunlight reflecting off the clear shimmering ice, highlighting the surrounding landscape in soft pastel colours and a luminous glow coming through the bold willow stumps.The painting is painted on a professional linen stretched onto extra reinforced with aluminium and wood under frame guaranteeing no skewing. Sides are 3.5 cm thick and painted so framing is not necessary but could be added if you wish to
Make A Wish
2022A artist’s wish and hope for happy winter holidays. A canvas full of glowing colours, joy and positive emotion that is the core to opening our hearts and our minds and can make us more receptive and creative. There are certain colours that help elicit these positive emotions. Happiness comes from enjoying something of pure pleasure and satisfaction. Hope is simply a wish for something you consider to be possible.
Starry Icy Night
2022Winter is almost here, whatever that means to you. Some are joyful, others despondent, but maybe all looking forward to happy holidays. It’s time to slow down, get cozy, and take a deep breath and appreciate natures gift at its most beautiful.Winter, clear starry sky, freezing crisp, clean air, frozen lakes with the lights and the stars reflecting off the clear shimmering ice, highlighting the surrounding landscape both natural and man made structures.
Late Autumn
2022It means Winter is almost here, whatever that means to you. Some are joyful, others despondent, but maybe all looking forward to happy holidays. The leaves are finally turn into their real colours falling slowly onto the ground and leaving the trees naked. The golden light from a low sun cutting sharp through and creating theatrical scenes full of positive emotions. It’s time to slow down, get cozy, and take a deep breath.
Sunny Autumn
2022After a blistering summer, Southern Europe bathes in an unseasonably warm autumn. At the end of October it cools down normally, but this year is exceptional, a lot of sun tanning on the beach in a bathing suit. The foliage, brighter than ever explodes into a rhapsody of oranges, reds and yellows. The low sun spreads golden light and turns the views into theatres stages full of positive emotions.
Colours Of Autumn
2022The foliage explodes into a rhapsody of oranges, reds, yellows and greens. Autumn, it’s a time to slow down, get cozy, and take a deep breath. Each season has its novelties and delicacies, but the Autumn months are a carnival for the senses, golden light and painted trees. A canvas full of colours, joy and positive emotion that is the core to opening our hearts and our minds and can make us more receptive and creative.
Pebbles And Clouds
2022You can't walk fast on Pebbles. They force you to slow down. The water washes them to and fro, sparkling with the light that filters through a thin layer of cloud, enhancing the colours of the pebbles in an incredible range of soft pastel combinations, relaxing the soul and refreshing the mind.
Dusk At Pebble Beach
2022A splash of soft warm light at sunset over the smooth wet pebbles and a calm sea creating a soothing atmosphere with a promise of a cool evening and a beautiful sunrise to come.
Summer
2022The season of bright light, beaches, long days, blooming flowers, colourful clothing and lots of fun. The word summer radiates positive energy and warmth. Summer comes and brings optimism, positivity, hope for the future and joy every year.
Warm Summer Sunset
2022Summer sunset, not to be missed, watched with amazement as the clouds are flowing in waves over the landscape painted with fiery colours and radiating heat from the setting sun. Refreshing coolness of the night promising a new day to come.
Giverny
2022In Giverny, visitors find much to admire. Monet’s gardens are very much like his paintings - patches of bright colours that are messy but perfectly balanced. It’s a true inspiration for many artists. A beautiful place radiating tranquility and provoking delicate senses.
Giverny 2
2022In Giverny, visitors find much to admire. Monet’s gardens are very much like his paintings - patches of bright colours that are messy but perfectly balanced. It’s a true inspiration for many artists. A beautiful place radiating tranquility and provoking delicate senses.
Lilies
2022Lilies everywhere! It is summer and the water canals and little ponds in the Netherlands are covered in water lilies. It seems like you’re looking at one of Monet’s paintings where ever you look.
Hazy Giverny
2022In Giverny, visitors find much to admire. Monet’s gardens are very much like his paintings - patches of bright colours that are messy but perfectly balanced. It’s a true inspiration for many artists. A beautiful place radiating tranquility and provoking delicate senses.
Harvest 3
2021Each season brings different things to the world around her that she likes to make sure and paint as they roll across the calendar each year. The maturing wheat fields are a part of one of the cycles with beautiful scenes that she tries to make sure she doesn't miss. Standing at the edge of a large wheat field and looking out over all those plants swaying in the breeze is impressive. A wheat field on a breezy day can be hypnotic.
Sping Inspires Energy 2
2022Spring inspires new energy and hope, the hope of new life in nature after a harsh winter. Bright fresh colours, new sprouting life blooming up all around us, revitalising and giving us peace, balance and joy in life.
Spring Inspires New Energy
2022Spring inspires new energy and hope, the hope of new life in nature after a harsh winter. Bright fresh colours, new sprouting life blooming up all around us, revitalising and giving us peace, balance and joy in life.
Spring Inspires Energy
2022Spring inspires new energy and hope, the hope of new life in nature after a harsh winter. Bright fresh colours, new sprouting life blooming up all around us, revitalising and giving us peace, balance and joy in life.
Spring Inspires Hope
2022Spring inspires hope, the hope of new life in nature after a harsh winter. Bright fresh colours, new sprouting life blooming up all around us, revitalising and giving us peace, balance and joy in life.
Hope
2022A moment driven by expectation and desire for a better place, a more reasonable, friendly, loving place where nature revitalises us, gives us balance and a peace of mind that we all need to enjoy life to the fullest.
The painting is painted on a professional linen stretched onto extra reinforced with aluminium and wood under frame guaranteeing no skewing.
Enter Another Dimension
2022Look at the painting and imagine enter and transport your mind to another dimension and let yourself be treated to a relaxing tour of a revitalising strange nature, emerge with more energy and confidence.
Another Dimension
2022Look at the painting and imagine enter and transport your mind to another dimension and let yourself be treated to a relaxing tour of a revitalising strange nature, emerge with more energy and confidence.
Fabulous Forest
2022Forest, a place deliciously cool and damp, when the diffused sun casts mysterious shadows over tiny clearings. A place of retreat and reflection. A place where you can easily get lost but actually unstoppably inspirational.
Glorious Gardens 2
2022The artwork is an exploration of greenery and bright coloured flowers in the time of blooming spring. A close look into a peaceful nature, feelings and senses evoked by the freshness in the air. The painting seeks to provide a meditation on the fundamental nature and essence of basic human emotions.
Good Morning
2022Sunrise, where everything is luminous but not clear. Once you’ve watched the sun rise it actually feels like your day has more value.
While each and every sunrise marks the beginning of a new day, it also reminds us that we, too, can start fresh with a good attitude, positivity, and thankfulness for what we have.
Winter, though a bit soft in Holland, is probably the most surprising with the most beautiful scenes of the year. Misty and wet days, frosty mornings, icy winds and endless spaces meeting the rising sun. Monotonous nature and white blanket make winter the most prominent of all the seasons of the year.
Valentine's Setting
2022A pink purple haze winter sunset inspiring emotions of lasting endearment and warmth.
Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate love, friendship and the joy of having other people in our life. It’s a day to open our hearts to each other and embrace the emotions that bring us together and give us a wonderful sense of warmth.
Morning
2021Winter, though a bit soft in Holland, is probably the most surprising with beautiful scenes of the year. Misty and wet days, frosty mornings, icy winds and endless spaces meeting the rising sun. Monotonous nature and white blanket make winter the most prominent of all the seasons of the year.
Awesome Autumn 2
2021At the end of Summer we always want some more of it, but what makes that farewell a little more bearable is the fact that Autumn is on the other side–ready to embrace us with its beauty and cosiness. Autumn, it’s a time to slow down, get cozy, and take a deep breath. Each season has its novelties and delicacies, but the Autumn months are a carnival for the senses, golden light and painted trees.
Awesome Autumn
2022At the end of Summer we always want some more of it, but what makes that farewell a little more bearable is the fact that Autumn is on the other side–ready to embrace us with its beauty and cosiness. Autumn, it’s a time to slow down, get cozy, and take a deep breath. Each season has its novelties and delicacies, but the Autumn months are a carnival for the senses, golden light and painted trees.
Summer Solstice
2021It‘s summer again! The hottest of the four seasons. On the summer solstice, we can finally enjoy the earliest sunrise and latest sunset, the days are longest and the nights are shortest. The colour schemes tend to be more bright and more diverse. We all wear more patterned clothes. Vibrant pinks, blues, greens and reds – these colours evoke a sense of joy and celebration. This paintings was painted in Bulgaria during short visit there. A large canvas framed in simply made framing painted to continue the colours of the painting. The depth of the framing is 4,5 cm. The width of the framing is 7 mm.
Indian summer, Diptych
2021A name that often describes the warm, calm spell of weather that occurs in autumn. The beautiful time of harvest and lots of vibrant yellows, golden tints with pinches of pinks, blues, greens and reds – these colours evoke a sense of celebration at the end of the harvest season. The colour pallet with it's peacefulness promotes balance of energies and satisfaction.
Hay harvest
2021Each season brings different things to the world around me that I like to make sure and paint as they roll across the calendar each year. The maturing wheat fields are a part of one of the cycles with beautiful scenes that I try to make sure I don’t miss. Standing at the edge of a large wheat field and looking out over all those plants swaying in the breeze is impressive. A wheat field on a breeze day can be hypnotic.
Fusion for tranquillity 2
2021We often search for a sense of peace and quiet, tranquillity. It is the feeling that we have while sitting under a starry sky, listening to the sea or crickets. An emotional state, the quality of a calm experienced in places with mainly natural features and activities, free from disturbance from man-made areas.... A feeling that we have while looking at gentle colour fusion.Blue has tremendous power to manage stress. It's a very soothing colour that helps calm your mind.Green is a restful and quiet colour. Because it symbolizes nature, green is one of the most beautiful and comforting colours that attracts harmonious feelings that can diffuse anxiety and helps us stay calm and refreshed. Beige greens and pale yellow-greens are the most stress-reducing shades in the green family. Pink is another colour that promotes tranquillity and peace. It's peacefulness promotes balance of your energies.
Fusion for tranquillity
2021We often search for a sense of peace and quiet, tranquillity. It is the feeling that we have while sitting under a starry sky, listening to the sea or crickets. An emotional state, the quality of a calm experienced in places with mainly natural features and activities, free from disturbance from man-made areas.... A feeling that we have while looking at gentle colour fusion.Blue has tremendous power to manage stress. It's a very soothing colour that helps calm your mind.Green is a restful and quiet colour. Because it symbolizes nature, green is one of the most beautiful and comforting colours that attracts harmonious feelings that can diffuse anxiety and helps us stay calm and refreshed. Beige greens and pale yellow-greens are the most stress-reducing shades in the green family. Pink is another colour that promotes tranquillity and peace. It's peacefulness promotes balance of your energies.
Harvest
2021Each season brings different things to the world around me that I like to make sure and paint as they roll across the calendar each year. The maturing wheat fields are a part of one of the cycles with beautiful scenes that I try to make sure I don’t miss. Standing at the edge of a large wheat field and looking out over all those plants swaying in the breeze is impressive. A wheat field on a breeze day can be hypnotic.
Dusk 3
2021Nothing restores a soul more quickly, fully and magically than a sunset over the sea. That stunning splash of pink and orange dancing on high clouds and painting the water like fire is a warming promise and some healing remedy for what’s already been endured. It’s a gift to all of us. In this canvas it is my own special relationship with the setting sun. It brings me a sense of calm I find nowhere else. lets take the time to appreciate how special it is to partake of such an individual thing in a wide-open, public setting.
Summer Aesthetic Triptych
2021It is summer again! The hottest of the four seasons. On the summer solstice, we can finally enjoy the earliest sunrise and latest sunset, the days are longest and the nights are shortest. The colour schemes tend to be more bright and more diverse. We all wear more patterned clothes. Vibrant pinks, blues, greens and reds – these colours evoke a sense of joy and celebration.
Urbanity
2021Urbanity diptych summarise the idea of urbanity as criteria to define the quality of urban life. Urbanity involves organic, spontaneous, unexpected, sometimes messy and chaotic quality causing the interactions of places and people what makes up the urban experience and help in providing settlement and character to the city.
Urbanity diptych
2021Urbanity diptych summarise the idea of urbanity as criteria to define the quality of urban life. Urbanity involves organic, spontaneous, unexpected, sometimes messy and chaotic quality causing the interactions of places and people what makes up the urban experience and help in providing settlement and character to the city.
Fields of poppies, Triptych
2021We can now enjoy amazing landscapes turning red. Lots of those distinctive and delicate flowers brightening up our views along the roads but also our home gardens. Once planted, they’ll come back year after year, forming graceful drifts over time. Poppy flower beautiful inspirational and meaningful appear as a symbol in the cultural mythologies of people around the world. Poppies are remembrance, imagination, sleep, dreams, sacrifice, regeneration and luxury.
Blossoms and snow
2021Snow is not a common sight in the Netherlands – winter rarely falls below freezing and any snow that does fall melts long before it can pile up on the ground. This year, it has snowed, in February, and these days ware full of joy. Although spring temperatures have already climbed above 20ºCelsius, in April we saw a rare snowfall, which resulted in the unique occurrence of snow falling amongst delicate Blossoms. Unfortunately, this scene did not last for very long but it left stunning visual memories and it has been inspiration for many of us.
Magical forest
2021Forest, a place deliciously cool and damp, when the diffused sun casts mysterious shadows over tiny clearings. A place of retreat and reflection. A place where you can easily get lost but actually unstoppably inspirational. The painting is painted on a professional linen stretched onto extra reinforced with aluminium and wood under frame guaranteeing no skewing. Sides are 3 cm thick and painted so framing is not necessary but could be added if you wish to. Finished with a glaze of UV varnish to protect against sunlight and dust damage. Ready to hang.
Dusk 2
2021Nothing restores a soul more quickly, fully and magically than a winter sunset over the sea. That stunning splash of pink, orange and red dancing on high clouds and painting the water like fire is a warming promise and some healing remedy for what’s already been endured. It’s a gift to all of us. In this canvas it is my own special relationship with the setting sun. It brings me a sense of calm I find nowhere else. lets take the time to appreciate how special it is to partake of such an individual thing in a wide-open, public setting.
Frosty mornings
2021Winter, though a bit soft in Holland, is probably the most surprising with beautiful scenes of the year. Misty and wet days, frosty mornings, icy winds and endless spaces meeting the rising sun. Monotonous nature and white blanket make winter the most prominent of all the seasons of the year.
Dusk
2021Nothing restores a soul more quickly, fully and magically than a winter sunset over the sea. That stunning splash of pink, orange and red dancing on high clouds and painting the water like fire is a warming promise and some healing remedy for what’s already been endured. It’s a gift to all of us. In this canvas it is the special relationship with the setting sun. It brings me sense of calm I find nowhere else. lets take the time to appreciate how special it is to partake of such an individual thing in a wide-open, public setting.
Pink horizon 2
2019Inspired by nature. The composition is build-up of horizontal layers which changing colour gradually. Silvery green fields meeting the red fiery sky and melting into a soft pink horizon
Pink horizon - Triptych
2019The painting is Inspired by nature. Three individual vertical canvases creating a perspective in depth. The composition is build-up of horizontal layers which changing colour gradually. Green fields meeting the red fiery sky and melting into a soft pink horizon. A painting with textured finishes and richness in colours where you could configure the spacing between the three canvases as you wish.
Bulgarian sunflowers
2019An expressive and emotional inspiration summarize the many views scenes and sights after one of the artist’s visit. The time of the sunflowers blooming and lightening in warmth most open land in the countryside and along the roads.
Autumn foliage
2020It’s the end of the summer but the fading light of the dusk has already begun to signal the coming of autumn. The autumn foliage explodes into a rhapsody of oranges, reads, yellows and greens. Ones again a wish and hope for happy winter holidays. A canvas full of glowing colours, joy and positive emotion that is the core to opening our hearts and our minds and can make us more receptive and creative.
Colours of joy
2020Joy is a positive emotion that is core to opening our hearts and our minds and can make us more receptive and creative. There are certain colours that help elicit these positive emotions. Happiness comes from enjoying something of pure pleasure and satisfaction. Hope is simply a wish for something you consider to be possible.
Shimmering autumn leaves
2020It’s the end of the summer but the fading light of the dusk has already begun to signal the coming of autumn. The autumn foliage explodes into a rhapsody of oranges, reads, yellows and greens. Ones again a wish and hope for happy winter holidays. A canvas full of glowing colours, joy and positive emotion that is the core to opening our hearts and our minds and can make us more receptive and creative.
Colours of hope and joy
2020
Nature’s response - Diptych
2020
Holidays
2020A artist’s wish and hope for happy winter holidays. A canvas full of glowing colours, joy and positive emotion that is core to opening our hearts and our minds and can make us more receptive and creative. There are certain colours that help elicit these positive emotions. Happiness comes from enjoying something of pure pleasure and satisfaction. Hope is simply a wish for something you consider to be possible.
Blossoms at dusk. Diptych
2020In this time of pandemic while the deadly virus delivers endless sorrow and sadness, artists inspirations arrive from the most basic things. Soft evening light or dusk sending the day away, a period where resilience has been required for a successful outcome. As a result of a peaceful moment a tranquil composition was born to restore the feelings and fill up the space with positive emotions.
Glorious gardens, Diptych
2020The artwork is an exploration of greenery and bright coloured flowers in the time of blooming spring. Two wood panels with progression from intensive colouring to light airiness and transparency. A close look into a peaceful nature, feelings and senses evoked by the freshness in the air. The painting seeks to provide a meditation on the fundamental nature and essence of basic human emotions. Constructed on a wood panel with 4,5 cm deep sides.
Reflections of sounds and light
2020
Reflections of birch trees
2020
Water lilies
2019Inspired by long walks in nature and coming across little ponds and canals in the Netherlands covered in water lilies. The colours of the blooming lilies, the leaves and the sparkling water reflecting the summer sun. The painting is made with layers of contrasting blues including azure, mint greens, whites, nude and purple.
Flanders Fields
2019This painting is inspired by travelling through Flanders, seeing the fields of poppies and a most inspiring poem by John McCrae " In Flanders Fields"
The painting is made with layers of contrasting reds including carmine, magenta, terracotta, orange, metallic copper and azure blues and purple. The metallic copper paint cause an almost shimmering effect like a light breeze coming through the poppies at sunset.
Reflections of sounds
2020The artwork is an exploration of the effects of light and sound on human perception. The panel is constructed to a point of completion through a process of paint layering and specific application and delicate balance between chaos and structure with a ruthlessness in how information is selected and deleted. The painting seeks to provide a meditation on the fundamental nature and essence of basic human emotions, where light and sounds are treated as a solid material. Constructed on a wood panel with 4,5 cm deep sides.
Shades of Blue 3
2019
Yellow fields
2018It was painted on a sunny warm day of the summer 2018. The idea of this colour combination came very spontaneously after several days of heat and bright sun.
Shades of blue
2018A painting with textured finishes. It has a beautiful flow of colour going from a warm yellow and gold to an cold azure and turquoise, creating a feeling of the transition of warm air to cool fresh waters.
Dust and scent of roses
2019This painting is inspired by the many roses in the Bulgarian rose valley situated in the central part of Bulgaria my country of origin. It is not only the shades of rose colours I am fascinate by, but also the irresistible scent of this valley covered with fresh blooming roses in May and June.
Contrast
2018Diptych Two canvases the same size build with a variety of heavy textures and many transparent and thick layers. There is obvious different appearance between one and other. Dark and light where many hidden colours are shining through thin layers of paint. Progression of black and white where black is not just black and white is not just white.