TEREZUM

So I started this painting way back in 2025. I took as a model the best model one painter can have: a permanently still one. My plants. I love plants and I have had a serious collection of them, from cacti to loads of peace lilies. After doing a bit of (nerd) research about Feng Shui and how some plants might be beneficial while others not, I have decided to keep plants that have good energy and purify the air. Think about this: we spend the majority of our time indoors unless you have a job that demands you to be outside. We breathe in and out. During winter time not so many think of opening the window , letting the fresh air in. The indoor air is sometimes more poluted than we would like to think.

So I am very fond of my plants and I treat them like a beautiful gift as they release the precious oxygen without which life wouldn’t be possible.

I prefer to place my plants in ceramic pots. It is a more natural material and I think that it is worth investing in a nice piece of pottery for the well-being of my plants.

I started to freehand this painting. I kept on looking to the orange pot. I kept splashing some watercolour. I then thought of space. Oh how I love to stare at the stars at night! I feel so small yet so big in this entire cosmos. I thought of Saturn’s rings and how vast is this world. When I look at my environment in such a philosophical way it makes me realize how futile it is to worry about anything. Life just passes by and we observe it while we live it.

I have slowly found my style when it comes to art as in I love watercolour as much as I love my rotring isograph pen and pointillism. So I combine the two. The result is my own unique pattern. Perhaps I will change. Who knows. I think that it is dangerous to label something as my style as this usually creates expectations from others to keep on doing the same thing.

I also recorded myself while talking about this painting. I realize that art continues to be my therapy and my lifelong friend. Now as I am also going through chemotherapy I realize how many talents I have been blessed with and I am happy that God gives me the strenght to continue to create art.