Dear reader,

First thing: my problems with the iCloud have not been solved – so I can’t post photo’s right now. Hope to do it later. And you can find it on Instagram if you want.

Today it occurred to me again that abstract painting is about trusting your feelings and follow through on the impulses that arise deep from within you. I believe that if you ‘practice’ this trusting these (bodily felt) paint-impulses, it finally will have an effect on your whole life.

Another thing: I was thinking yesterday about the difference between realistic an abstract painting. If you paint from reality, you have a concrete starting point: Reality. And of course there are a thousand ways to approach this Reality, and if you go very far philosophically you might even question if Reality exists without you interpreting it. But if I put it very simply: you see something: landscapes, flowers, faces, whatever. And you take that as a starting point.

In abstract painting, there is no such concrete starting point. It starts from within. From something non-tangible, non-material. The question is: how am I going to transform something non-tangible, non-material in something tangible, material?

I definitely have not thought this through enough, but this question hit me yesterday. And it has a connection with the former thing I wrote (about trusting your feelings when you paint). If you don’t have an objective, clear reason to go a certain direction, but only a deep but invisible and maybe even illogical impulse, is it possible to follow that? (And is it always wise?)

I am very eager to know what you think since this topic is definitely not closed for me yet ;-)

Bye!

Simone