Recent work: (updated June 26, 2009)

Kruispoorte June 2009 Oil over egg tempera, silver point and india ink after watercolor and value studies on gessoed wooden panel 22 x 50 cm

This view is from the bridge we usually cross over to enter the Sint Anna quartier section of Bruges where we live. The light is late afternoon/early evening, long summer light. The wind on the canal quiets down then, so the water reflections are longer and not so choppy. This piece was created in the studio after on site watercolor and value studies.

I used an indirect studio painting technique in order to achieve the intense luminosity that I experienced in the the greens of the foreground. That luminosity doesn't translate well through these levels of digital reproduction, so the image here is but a fledgling intimation of this effect.  (My idea, my wish, is to make paintings that vibrate.)