EARLY SPRING

In the early spring of 2016, we drove by car through all of central France to visit our friends in the Bordeaux region. How many beautiful landscapes we saw from the car window! Sometimes we stopped because something just could not be missed. By the way, when traveling around France, it becomes clear that Impressionism appeared here not by chance. It seems that the air itself is filled with irradiating color, its most delicate and subtlest shades. After a couple of years, I painted this artwork with trees standing in the water, specially trimmed like everywhere else, here. This is not even spring, but a premonition of spring. This is a large format painting, it resembles a French tapestry. It is painted with a palette knife with a wide brushstroke. The touch of a palette knife makes the surface of the artwork sensual and looks like a carpet woven with silk. The painting is part of my collection of the 2018 Imaginary Garden.

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