Moments Before

Moments before was created in the year 1998, in the Netherlands and till this day it is one of my favourite paintings. Back then I had a preference for using dark colours. This is one of the first paintings in which the red moon appeared. I paint intuitively and at the time I did not see it as a red moon. But an art connoisseur, who saw my work during a solo exhibition in the Netherlands, wrote about that there was a 'Red moon' in all my paintings in that exhibition. I was intrigued, but then found out that a red moon is a symbol for the Goddess of Isis, which represents, amongst other things, intuition, female creativity and even sensuality. As of then, till only a few years ago, I included the red moon in all my paintings.

Moments before is painted on special oil paper which has a linen structure and was then, by my framer, pasted onto a piece of board.