I’m doing a bit of reading, these evenings, trying to plug some of the gaps in my knowledge of art. My particular interest at the moment is Impressionism. This quote sticks in my mind – ‘every landscape painter inevitably becomes a painter of light’ (i). I don’t think I had fully realised this, until I read it.
For my own part, my own special interest is in painting water. Now I see, it is not the water that intrigues me, but the light on the water! Water reflects light better than anything else. Why did I not realise that I was a painter of ‘light’ all the time?
Now that I understand this, I am even more enthusiastic about painting the landscape. I just thought I’d share this.
The painting above is 60x60cm, part of my Canary Island series.
(i) Frouke van Diijke in Clouds and Light.
