In this work, Maud used all natural and handmade pigments, and made them into oil paint. Apart from white, to brighten some of them, which came from a tube of oil paint.
The pigments are made from charcoal, and from stones found on the side of the road, where she regularly walks, close to her parents’ home. Different stones gave different colours and structures. The structures you can specifically see well from up close, or in the pictures scrolling down to the next picture >
The painting depicts two images of places she walks by regularly, in walking the dog, or just going for a stroll.
When coming back from Norway, besides the culture shock, Maud also got a landscape shock. From the beautiful mountains, where she fell in love with depicting landscapes in her imges, the plane landed in the flat and organised home country. What is then a better way to start finding new views than starting where you’ve spent your whole life, except the past 5,5 months? Home.
Installing the painting against natural light, made the pigments even more visible, since they were still pretty big. The transparency became more visible and opened up an entirely new world.
This is therefore not a painting to hang on a wall.
Maud Konings 