Painting Light and Colour

‘Cafe on the Lake’

Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm

Status: €360

Vondel Park is (probably) the largest park in Amsterdam. Situated just outside the older city, it gets very crowded in the warmer months. I painted this scene of a cafe across the pond earlier this summer. It took me two different days to complete, as it is biggish. The bright light was cool and clear, (in the morning), so I painted everything accordingly, with a unifying ‘coolness’, and with very loose brushwork – providing quite a different result than some of my previous landscapes. Always nice to come up with something novel.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

This painting will be on exhibition at the KunstKerk Gallery in Amsterdam from 6th September.

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