Two more weeks to go and two more paintings to finish. This one I have just finished and is titled, "Lullabies gone Forever". I came across this place and got a very strong feeling of when I was a child, back in Holland. The whole place was enclosed by fencing, with remnants of a house in the middle. I wish I could get inside and get some of those memories back. Perhaps it was a sense of being home sick. As a child child I spend many hours in the country, usually on my own, walking trough the forest and I remember to be perfectly happy. I loved the birds, studied them and recording their songs. I must have been about 10 years old.
My Grandmother who lived nearby used to make us wet our pants laughing with stories of my Mother and her sisters and brothers. Stories about wartime and how the Germans stole their bikes fleeing Holland at the end of the War. Great memories and every time I go back to to Holland I will visit the area. The House she lived in has been sold and just isn't the same anymore. I wish I could go back in time and revisit but there is this invisible border that stops you from doing so. "Lullabies gone Forever" is a painting that depicts exactly that feeling.
Some pics of the area I grew up in. A small town in the East of Holland called St.Isidorushoeve and later on Haaksbergen.
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