Kitchen Utensils
Copper and bronze are always a challenge. The finest painter of copper, I think, was the Frenchman Chardin, whose paintings are really symphonies of atmosphere and detail. Here are some of my own, rather early works. The mortar and pestle is my first painting of an item in bronze; the painting of the four measures […]
Scottish Poets
This is a painting I have really enjoyed doing because it somehow kept me in the company of James Hogg and Walter Scott, who both used to live in the Valley of Romance where I was fortunate to spend eight good years of my life, and Robert Burns, the poet who caused some of our […]
Small Bible with Silver Clasps
These small Bibles have been with me for as long as I can remember. The same is true for the old silver watch. One of the hands of the watch has been broken and lost. And the candle has gone out, too.To complete the melancholy picture, I therefore decided to paint all the books closed […]
Mum’s Jug
These early paintings feature one of the earthenware jars my mother gave me a couple of years ago, almost an entire life-time after she had received it from her mother. It is made of a special grey clay, found along the river Rhine in Germany. “Jar, bowl with lemons, and apples” Oil on canvas, 2008 – […]
Old Magnums
Today, we asscociate the word ‘magnum’ with a double sized bottle of wine, especially champagne. But magnums are not a new phenomenon, and neither are they necessarly ‘only’ double sized. Here are three magnums of various sizes (the biggest one can contain approximately 5 litres, or more than three times the volume of a ‘regular’ […]