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“Between Us, There Became More Sky”

Sometimes it feels like everything is fine. Like you are moving together, looking in the same direction, building one life. But one person keeps holding themselves apart. Living not truly with you, but beside you. As if one foot has already stepped into another world. And for years you carry that weight. You carry the relationship, the conversations, the hope, the warmth, the family. Trying to hold onto someone who does not truly want to stay beside you.And then one day, you realize you cannot do it anymore.So you and your loved ones keep walking forward. And that person stays behind. And suddenly there is more and more sky between you.

Burning, endless, restless.

As if both the sky and the earth are on fire.

But eventually, you have to make a choice. To choose yourself. To choose peace. To choose a life where you no longer carry someone who does not want to walk beside you.

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“Ash Dreaming”

People very often ask me to paint portraits of pets who have passed away. And I truly understand this wish — to keep a beloved animal not only in your heart, but also close to you, as a warm reminder on the wall, as part of your home and memories.I really love painting animals. Maybe because they always carry so much sincerity, personality, and quietness within them.Two years ago, when my own dog passed away at the age of 16, I painted a piece for myself too. I placed him in an apple garden where we used to walk before he became ill. We played ball there, I could let him off the leash, and he would happily run through the grass. It was his happy place. And mine too.That is how this painting of Ash appeared. Thankfully, Ash is alive and doing well. But he is already a very senior cat, and I asked to place him in a world filled with flowers and endless sky. A quiet, peaceful place full of sunlight, butterflies, and warm grass.I think it fits his personality perfectly. Ash is calm, gentle, and wonderfully lazy. This daisy field feels like a little paradise made especially for him.I truly hope Ash will live for many, many more years, and this painting will simply become a beautiful decoration in the home and a reminder of how deeply he is loved 🖤

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“Every Sky Becomes a Memory”

Every day we have a sunset. And every day it is completely different.Sometimes we notice it, sometimes we don’t. But even if we do not see it, it still exists.Life feels the same way. We move through different states, different skies, different versions of ourselves. Some things become memories, some stay inside us forever, and some are only understood years later.The horses here feel like travelers continuing through all of it — through light, uncertainty, change, and time itself.

And somewhere ahead, there is still another horizon.

“Fallen into a Pond”

When I shared my new frog painting and the story about my son yesterday, people started writing: “You should paint a cat in a pond.”

But the funny thing is — I already did 🙂

This painting was created back in 2024 and was sold a long time ago, but today I wanted to share it with you again.

Maybe it’s not a coincidence that I once imagined it this way.

When I was a child, I had cats. Not just one — three of them. And like many little girls (and even grown-up girls), I adored them. I washed them, brushed them, cared for them, and talked to them like they were people.But one cat was special. He loved going to the lake with me when I went fishing. And the most surprising thing was — he swam. On his own. When the weather was hot, he would simply walk into the water and swim. Sometimes after butterflies, sometimes just beside me.It still amazes me, because cats usually hate water — and yet there was this cat, happily swimming across the lake.The world is far more surprising than we think.

Keep observing it. Keep wondering about it. And never stop noticing the small, strange miracles

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“Water Lilies and Burdocks” 2025

Last summer, in 2025, my children and I went on a journey through northern France.In Belgium, summer holidays last almost two months, and during this time schools and kindergartens are closed. Every year I think about how parents manage without grandparents nearby or any help from a partner.For me, this is always the period when I almost stop painting and fully focus on my children, simply because there is no one else to leave them with. But at the same time, these months often become the source of the warmest memories and unexpected inspiration.One of the places we visited was where Claude Monet once lived and worked. We walked through his famous gardens with the children, visited his home, and saw the pond with water lilies that inspired so many of his paintings. It felt surreal to walk along the same paths where the artist once searched for light, reflections, and color.I have never seen so many flowers in one place before. The gardens are incredibly well cared for, and everything there feels immersed in shades of green, blue, and violet. Painting there en plein air would be impossible though — there are so many visitors that everyone moves almost in a line behind each other. But even that short visit stayed with me for a very long time.I guess what I want to say is this:Spend more time with your children. Sometimes children lead us to places that later become part of our paintings, our memories, and our soul.

Children are inspiration too.

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“Red Fishes”

2018

You often ask me how to find your own artistic style.But your own style is not something you find in a day. Or even in two or three years.It is formed over many years through experience, mistakes, experiments, and thousands of hours of practice. Through everything you live through and absorb emotionally.Unfortunately, I no longer have most of my very early student works. Back then, I painted very differently. It probably looked much closer to classical academic oil painting with an attempt to copy reality as accurately as possible.But here is one of my older pond paintings from 2018.And if you compare it to my recent works, like “The Frog Catcher,” the difference is enormous.That is how style is born.Not by trying to invent something unique overnight, but through years of constant work, observation, and personal growth.

Style is not a mask.

It is the trace of time on your paintings

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“Present Lasts Only a Moment”

Our life is only a few decades long, and so often we spend it waiting. We wait for tomorrow, for next month, for better times, for new circumstances, or for some perfect moment. But while we keep waiting, the present quietly passes by — and in reality, life is made of these present moments.

I think it’s very important sometimes to stop and look around: at the people beside us, at ordinary moments, at evening light, conversations, children’s laughter, walks, and hugs. Even during difficult periods of life, there is always something real and beautiful to hold onto. That’s why I try to appreciate what I have today instead of only waiting for some perfect “later.”

Wishing you a peaceful Sunday with the people you love 🤍

I use Pinterest mainly as a personal archive of my artwork. Over the years, I’ve organized my paintings into collections by year, and sometimes, while browsing through old folders or recommendations, I come across photographs that make me see familiar things from a completely new perspective.That’s exactly how this painting began.I found a photograph of a swan diving underwater. The original image looked nothing like this painting—there were no underwater plants, no glowing light, no imagined world beneath the surface. But I was fascinated by the unusual point of view. I realized that I had never really seen a swan from that angle before.Unfortunately, I don’t know who took the photograph. It had been shared and saved on Pinterest without any credit to the photographer, so I can’t thank them personally.But that single image became the starting point for this painting. The underwater garden, the reflections, the colors, the atmosphere, and the story all came later as the work evolved. The swan was simply the spark that inspired the journey.So today I’d like to thank all photographers. You show us moments that most of us would never have the chance to witness ourselves. Sometimes one extraordinary image is enough to inspire an entirely new story on canvasAnd yes, I truly hope that swan was real and not AI-generated. The real world is already full of wonders if we take the time to look closely. 🤍

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