Original artwork description:

Right before the war broke out in Ukraine, we had a very uneasy feeling here in North-eastern Europe. It was a certitude of fragility: how all the good things are easily broken and need a high level of protection, happiness and security: children, doll houses, fruit bowls and quiet evenings in candle light. The next morning, February the 24th, I woke up crying, very early. I turned on news a couple of hours later and cried even more for weeks to come. Peace, the greatest achievement of human kind, had ended in Europe just a thousand kilometers away from my home.
So I am painting angels right now. Seventy two of them, hoping to create peace, solace and hope again. As we can only meet angels on earth while they are acting through other humans, I have a growing collection of portraits: children, grown-ups, happy and sad, all kinds of angels who cross my path.
I'm using watercolor technique, as the floating, light, transparent, unearthly pigments seems to best reveal the nature of angels and hope.
The work is painted on 180 g/m² Arches watercolour paper and is not framed.

Materials used:

Watercolor and pastel on paper

Tags: