Wales, Worchestershire, the Cotswolds ...

Some of the lovely places, where I just spent a nice holiday with my family. 

Lots of rain in June 2012, but never the less beautiful as always. Here are a few of my photos which later will be inspiration for painting:

                         The Malvern Hills in Worcestershire

          

Chipping Campden, The Memorial,
I love all the old houses and it is admirable the way, the conservation is taking care of the town.


Look at the shadows on these photos!
A great inspiration for painting!




The 17th century Market Hall










 

Old houses in Stratford-upon-Avon

Last year we got on a river-cruise , but this year we had too much rain. 

 

The countryside around our rented cottage:

I enjoy this decorated bicycle in Chipping Campden  

Wilhelm Hammershøi

Another favorite:

Wilhelm Hammershøi

Danish painter, 1864 to 1916, hid the record for sale of Danish Masters recently from The Sotheby´s, London.

Portrait of his sister

Hammershøi was rather unknown during his life. He was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in 1884. P.S. Krøyer, wellknown Skagen-painter, was his one of his teachers. (See this blog)

His wife was the model on several of his paintings. He was the master of interiors and the light in his work is exceptional.

Born in Copenhagen, he lived and worked in the old quarter, the center of the Danish capital. His paintings of architectural motives are very sad and lonely in my opinion. His palette was very restricted and shows the light and atmosphere in Copenhagen, I recognize so well.

It is nice to see the international interest for Wilh.Hammershøi, because Danish Art at this period has so many talented painters.

Here are some examples of his work:

His interiors are absolute stunning. Look at these doors:

The Doors (Wilh. Hammershøi)

From Copenhagen

The Young Oaks

Did you see, what I meant, when I said, I find his paintings so full of melancoly?

IMPRESSIONS no 5

Aase Lind 

40 x 40 x 2 cm

Acrylic on canvas

Artists note: 
My latest work made wet-in-wet. A technique, I find very challenging!

The different shades of blue, lilac and yellow are some of my favorites and I return to them again and again. 


Below : MEDITATIONS no 2, painted  in 2011, in the same technique. 
           

100 x 80 x 2 cm.
acrylic on canvas

          

William John Leech Irish Painter

William John Leech 

Irish Painter (1881 - 1968)

                                           

During my research of the Danish Skagen Painters, a reader of this blog kindly sent me the link to the magnificent 

Irish Painter William John Leech

(Just look at the details in his paintings!)

I enjoy his paintings and remember a visit some years ago to a Dublin museum for Irish Artists.

What a treasure of talented artists!

Here is one of my own humble paintings after a visit to Ireland and Wales:

Aase Lind: Landscape, 2011 

Michael Ancher, Danish Skagen Painter

Another of my favorites:

Michael Ancher, Skagen painter 

1849 - 1927

Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish impressionist artist. 

He is most associated with his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish port of Skagen. His paintings are classics and he is probably one of Denmark's most popular artists. 

Born: June 9, 1849, Bornholm

Died: September 19, 1927, Skagen

Period: Impressionism

Michael Peter Ancher was born on the island of Bornholm. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) in Copenhagen (1871-5)

A group of artists had congregated to form the Skagen Painters in Skagen, a small fishing village in the north of Denmark, situated where the Baltic and North Sea converge.

After Ancher first visited Skagen in 1874, he settled there joining the growing society of artists. The colony of painters regularly met in the Brøndums Hotel in Skagen in order to exchange ideas. 

In 1880 Ancher married fellow painter and Skagen native Anna Brøndum, whose father owned the Brøndums Hotel.

Anna and Michael Ancher 

In the first years of their marriage, the couple had a home and studio in the "Garden House", which is now in Skagen Museum garden. After the birth of his daughter Helga in 1883 the family moved to Markvejen in Skagen.

Ana painted by husbond Michael.

Ana Ancher was a very skilled painter, too.
She is my favorite painter among the Skagen Painters.

                       

Laying the Table

Summer evening at Skagen

At Skagen

One of the many portraits painted by Michael Ancher


Below some of his dramatic paintings of hardworking fishermen in the rough sea:

Link to visit: 

www.skagensmuseum.dk